Manchester United scraped a valuable 1-0 away win over Fulham.
Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag feels the pressure of success on his neck. PDO
Manchester United, the big club of yesteryear, is in its biggest crisis in modern football history. It had lost four of its previous seven games before Saturday’s Premier League round.
The last time the results of domestic pitches were at an equally bad level was in the fall of 1986, when the club management also decided to fire the then manager by Ron Atkinson.
The current United pilot also feels the same pressure in his neck Erik ten Hag. The Dutchman knew that his position might not take any more losses.
However, the same could not be read from ten Hag’s player selections when he prepared his team for the away match against Fulham.
World championship winner in France shirt Raphael Varane could only fit on the bench as United went to Craven Cottage with a pair of former Leicester City tops Harry Maguire–Jonny Evans.
Also severely underachieving Antony’s the place in the opening was also a surprise, because ten Hag also had a Uruguayan national team member at his disposal Facundo Pellistri.
The three most important acquisitions of the past summer Mason Mount, Sofyan Amrabat and Sergio Reguilón kept Pellistri company on the bench.
– This is more the Manager’s suicide message than the lineup, the Daily Telegraph’s football columnist estimates Jim White message service in X.
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Whatever ten Hag wanted from London, the match did not go according to his plans.
A valuable away win
The first goal situation of the match was already seen in the eighth minute, when the man responsible for United’s efforts in the fall Scott McTominay pushed Alejandro Garnachon from the close distance of the feed to the network.
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Referee John Brooks took a long look at Scott McTominay’s goal. PDO
After several minutes of var checking, the referee John Brooks however, decided to disallow the goal due to Maguire’s offside position. Toppari didn’t even hit the ball, but he was considered to have actively influenced the course of the game.
After that, there were few subtleties on the field.
Ten Hag had to wait until the additional time given by the referee until the captain Bruno Fernandes released the visitors with his winning goal.
The Portuguese received the ball on the edge of the penalty area, and placed it past the Fulham keeper with an inside edge Bernd Leno.
The three-point away trip will ease United’s position in the league, and it will stabilize ten Hag’s position at the club’s helm. The team travels to Copenhagen next, where a forced win in the Champions League awaits them on Wednesday.