Yesterday was one other nightmare for Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United, with time absolutely quick working out for the Dutch tactician as Pink Devils supervisor.
Ten Hag’s aspect have been actually poor as Tottenham earned a snug 3-0 win at Previous Trafford, with Brennan Johnson scoring early on and with Man Utd by no means actually threatening a comeback at any level.
This follows United additionally dropping 3-0 at dwelling to Liverpool earlier this season, whereas they’ve additionally had some poor attracts just lately, being held by Crystal Palace within the Premier League and Twente within the Europa League.
BBC Sport have put collectively some stats on fairly how badly issues are going for United, and it absolutely factors in the direction of Ten Hag being proven the door sooner moderately than later.
Ten Hag stats absolutely present there’s no means again for the Man United supervisor
As per the BBC’s piece, Ten Hag’s United are actually on their joint-fewest ever factors after six video games of a Premier League season, whereas it’s additionally their lowest aim tally aside from the beginning of 2007/08. On prime of that, they’ve now suffered extra league matches by three or extra objectives since Sir Alex Ferguson retired than they ever did below the legendary Scottish tactician. It’s additionally the primary time United have misplaced consecutive dwelling league video games with out scoring for the reason that finish of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s reign.
Mainly, it’s extremely ominous for Ten Hag, who simply hasn’t made the progress you’d count on after being given plenty of time to implement his philosophy and techniques, while additionally being given a lot to spend on altering the squad.
A lot of this squad is now made up of gamers signed below Ten Hag, together with a couple of former Ajax gamers reminiscent of Antony, Lisandro Martinez, Andre Onana, Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui.
Whereas Ten Hag’s sacking won’t precisely be imminent, MUFC are absolutely going to wish to see a really fast turnaround or else the answer to their issues is unquestionably fairly apparent by now.
