Manchester United have hit rock bottom. This is what his supporters should hope for, as the Red Devils experienced a humiliation likely to make a mark on Saturday. 4-0. After 35 minutes. For Brentford, facing the Mancunian ogre, who has looked like a Lilliputian for a few years. You read correctly. It is on this score that is hardly believable that this match of the 2nd day of the Premier League ended.
During the fiasco, Rio Ferdinand, a former Manchester United defender, posted a tweet that sounded like a cry for help: “Brentford slaps us (…) I have a headache, heartache, I need help“. His former teammate Gary Neville, an acerbic consultant for Sky Sportshas meanwhile struck, live: “It’s a feat to spend £1billion and be so bad.” Because there was not only the result, there was the content.
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The first goal came from a loss of ball in his camp of Cristiano Ronaldo, symbol of the glorious past of MU, which it is rumored that he no longer wants to defend the colors. But it is mainly due to a fault of hand of David de Gea. The second, born of a daring raise from the Spanish goalkeeper, was almost as “gag”. He testified to Erik ten Hag’s desire to build a polished game, which sticks to the standing of the club, but not to the slump in which it is entangled.
It is from a scramble hardly less grotesque that gave birth to the third achievement of the locals. Then a remarkable cons folded the case. The following ? A triple change tinged with despair at halftime, and a second act devoid of interest. This is the sad reality of this Manchester United which has not won reign over the Kingdom since 2013 but whose prospect of ending this period of scarcity is no longer even a mirage.
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“You must assume your responsibilities on the pitch, as a team and as individuals. We did not do it”estimated the Dutch coach, at the microphone of the English broadcaster, as reported by BBC. The first Manchester United manager to start with two defeats since 1921, Ten Hag said to himself “sorry to the fans” : “They did everything to support us and we let them down.”
“It’s not much different from last week (setback at Old Trafford against Brighton, 1-2, editor’s note). It’s a confirmationcoldly conceded the technician. We all saw the same game. Brentford was hungrier than us. We made too many individual mistakes for our plan to work.” A finding of helplessness that has become recurrent, for this decaying giant, 6th in the last exercise and unrecognizable even in his green outfit this Saturday.
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Where can salvation come from? “It’s clear we need players, but I don’t want to think about that right nowhe added regarding the quality of his workforce. The good players we have should have been better“. Erik ten Hag timidly tried to reassure himself by evoking “good things“that he would have seen:”I have to keep believing.” A hint of the Coué method in an ocean of gloom.
De Gea meanwhile echoed the words of his coach, taking responsibility for the failure of his family, facing the microphones. “I think I cost my team three points, it was a poor performance on my part (…) AndI had repelled that first shot, the result would have been different“, he estimated for Sky Sports. But if Manchester United (20th) risks ending a Premier League day in last place for the first time since 1992, it is not because of a single man.
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