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Manchester United supervisor Eric ten Hag performed his a centesimal recreation answerable for the membership with a disappointing defeat within the Manchester derby on Sunday.
Amazingly, the Dutchman at present has the very best profitable proportion of any coach within the membership's historical past. The previous Ajax man has gained 60 of his video games, which logically provides him a win proportion of 60%.
Nonetheless, it’s a home product of playing cards, with no actual infrastructure for future success.
Based on a report in The Solar, the nice Sir Alex Ferguson is true behind him with a 59.7% win proportion. Nonetheless, Scott managed an enormous 1500 matches for the Mancunian facet.
Jose Mourinho is third with 58.3% after 144 video games adopted by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer with 54.2% proportion after 168 matches.
David Moyes rounds out the highest 5 with 52.9%, however in a small pattern dimension of his 51 video games within the hotseat. Louis van Gaal is subsequent with 52.4% after 103 matches.
Nonetheless, regardless of a powerful profitable proportion, why is the Dutchman underneath such intense stress with many pundits and followers calling for him to be sacked? Former gamers Paul Scholes and Michael Owen have each claimed that Ten Hag will probably be passed by the summer season and right here's why many gamers already anticipate the supervisor to be on his bike by the tip of the season.
Within the curiosity of equity, the 54-year-old had a really sturdy first season, which was praised by most United followers because the membership gained the Carabao Cup, completed third, reached the FA Cup remaining and the quarter-finals of the Europa League.
Nonetheless, regardless of the success, the season was marred by embarrassing defeats similar to a 4–0 defeat at Brentford, a 6–3 defeat on the Etihad and a depressing 7–0 defeat at Anfield.
However, final season's 42 wins out of 62 was truly extremely creditable, particularly given the place the membership was in after the brief however disastrous Ralf Rangnick period.
One criticism which will have been aimed on the outcomes of the primary season was the quantity of theoretically simple cup ties the group acquired and taking part in within the Europa League moderately than the Champions League. United had recorded each FA Cup and Carabao Cup recreation performed at Outdated Trafford, apart from the League Cup semi-final first leg and the FA Cup semi-final.
Moreover, the Carabao Cup included powerful wins over Villa and Newcastle, however was eased by residence ties in opposition to Burnley and Charlton earlier than a semi-final double header in opposition to Nottingham Forest.
Additionally this season, United's run to the FA Cup quarter-finals has gone comparatively effectively in opposition to Wigan Athletic, Newport County and Nottingham Forest, albeit all three have been away to Outdated Trafford.
Nonetheless, all the things has been nice this season as after 38 matches in all competitions, Ten Hag's win proportion is simply 50% as they’ve gained 19 video games, misplaced 16 and drawn three.
One issue that needs to be talked about is the big variety of accidents and off-field issues that even Ten Hag's greatest critics should give him some sympathy for. The Dutchman has been with out his defensive lynchpin Lisandro Martínez for a lot of the season and has no attacking assist, with Anthony Martial unavailable to assist teen Rasmus Hjolund, who’s now after all injured.
There’s a caveat to that warning, nonetheless, as some gamers instantly blame the coach for the harm scenario, so maybe one shouldn’t be too sympathetic.
One other unusual side of Ten Hag's report that has elevated his win proportion is his unbelievable lack of attracts. United have didn’t win or lose solely 11 occasions of their century of matches to this point. From this it may be understood that the group is in search of victory at any value but it surely doesn’t appear sensible.
The Mancunian facet doesn’t rating too many objectives and doesn’t give probabilities to the opponents. As an alternative, they play a really chaotic transition system which suggests they’re recurrently caught on the counter and appear unable to shut store when crucial. He carried out effectively within the 0-0 draw at Anfield in December and considerably higher in opposition to Metropolis on Sunday, however these are very a lot the exceptions to the rule.
Not that any United supervisor ought to have the benefit of a draw, however the worth of selecting up some extent as a substitute of a loss will increase in worth throughout a season's complete of factors and unbeaten stretches. Mainly, when you by no means make a draw, you'll earn much less factors.
A fast comparability of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's and Jose Mourinho's groups exhibits that they have been tougher to beat than Ten Hag.
The Portuguese coach misplaced the identical variety of video games as Ten Hague, however performed 44 extra and drew considerably extra, 32.
Solskjaer misplaced 40, 12 greater than Ten Hag, however he additionally gained 68 extra video games. It’s unlikely that the Dutchman has that many video games left, however it’s fairly attainable that if he hypothetically had 68 extra matches, he will surely have misplaced 12 extra matches on account of present kind.
Total, whereas the previous Ajax man deserves credit score for his sensible first season and a level of sympathy for his struggles this season, the statistics lie. You’ll be able to solely beat who’s in entrance of you, however cup ties have been variety to Ten Haag. Plus the chaotic nature of soccer, particularly this season, has resulted in additional wins and losses than attracts. The unhappy actuality is that this isn’t a stable basis on which to construct success.
That United have recurrently suffered defeats in opposition to high opponents could be seen of their depressing report away from residence in opposition to the highest 9 groups within the league. In his 100 video games in cost, his group have didn’t beat any of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolis, Arsenal, Newcastle, Chelsea or Tottenham and at occasions haven’t even appeared near having the ability to take action.
This isn’t United's most profitable supervisor after 100 video games; It’s extremely debatable whether or not he’s even a lower above Mourinho and Solskjaer. And everyone knows how his tenure ended.