On Betfair, Manchester United’s crisis as soon as the Premier League started generates a very high pessimism around the Dutch coach.
A compatriot from Ten Hag, Frank de Boer, boasts the third fastest dismissal in English competition when he was sacked after just four days in 2017.
Brentford’s 4-0 thrashing of Manchester United at the Gtech Community Stadium led to the Red Devils’ worst start to the Premier League after the first two matchdays in 29 years. Since the 1992-1993 season, they did not start the competition with two defeats. Erik Ten Hag’s era at the helm of the English team officially began on August 7 with a home defeat at Old Trafford against Brighton (1-2), and the worst thing is that the sensations are very negative.
With the guillotine close
In the context of last Saturday, Cristiano started and completed the 90 minutes, but not even with the Portuguese could they get their hands on Brentford, a club that only last season was promoted to the top flight of English football for the first time in its history. According to Betfair forecasts, this start generates enormous pessimism in order to trust in the continuity of Ten Hag.
The poor performance of the bulk of the squad in the duel on the second day of the Premier was notorious, but the poor performance of the Spanish goalkeeper David de Gea stood out, who slipped the ball out of his hands in the first goal of Brentford, the which was scored by Josh Dasilva in the 10th minute. Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee and Bryan Mbeumo put the other nails in the Manchester coffin.
There are only two official games but the Dutch coach is already the second favorite to be fired in the Premier League this season. According to Betfair forecasts, Ten Hag being the first manager sacked reaches an implied probability of 16.7%, second only to Ralph Hasenhüttl, the manager of Southampton.
A daring to think about the Premier title
The fact that Manchester United win the Premier League is already the highest quota that is remembered in its recent history of the competition. According to Betfair forecasts, that the Red Devils win the title reaches an implied probability of 0.7%, sixth favorite team but light years behind the fifth, Arsenal, which generates a probability of 5.9%.
According to the English Daily Mail, Ten Hag would have imposed a punishment on his players after the result against the London team. In principle, the United players had the Sunday after the game as a day off, but after the defeat against Brentford, Ten Hag had his squad report to the United sports city. The Dutch coach would have shared with the team that he was not amused by the performance given the previous day, and would have put his players to run eight and a half miles (approximately 13.6 kilometers) as punishment for the poor performance shown.
Far from the stability of yesteryear
The Premier League in recent seasons has established itself as one of the best leagues in the world or perhaps the best, mixing economic investment with future signings of enormous talent and high economic cost, all of which was accompanied by the arrival of highly prestigious coaches . Being an England coach was synonymous with longevity in the Premier, but what was once a long-distance profession has become a high-risk one, because the new owners of English clubs make competition and expectations maximum and the Anxiety affects the longevity of coaches on the bench. Ten Hag’s case may remind one not long ago of Frank De Boer, who was fired after just four games in 2017. And so many more examples.
The case of De Boer in 2017
With his dismissal, De Boer broke a record in the Premier League, as it became the third fastest dismissal in the history of the competition. The former Barça player spent only 77 days at the helm of Crystal Palace since he arrived to replace former England manager Sam Allardyce. Les Reed holds the outright record, being sacked from Charlton in 2006 after 40 days in charge (7 games), while René Meulensteen lasted 75 days at Fulham between 2013 and 2014 (13 games). The context in which United operates makes bettors think that Ten Hag’s position is already in danger and we have only played two games.