This stunning statistic towards Fulham spells huge hassle for Ten Hag and his United future

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Manchester United has confronted the second-most pictures on track of all groups within the Premier League this season.

United suffered a 2-1 defeat to Fulham at ODI Trafford on Saturday.

Second-half objectives from Kelvin Bassey and Alex Iwobi let down a United group who actually supplied nothing and deserved to lose.

The Crimson Devils' solely aim was scored by Harry Maguire, who hit the ball into the again of the online from shut vary after Bernd Leno had spilled a Bruno Fernandes shot.

Towards the Cottagers, Eric ten Hag's males conceded an astonishing 17 pictures. 9 of those had been on track and Andre Onana wanted to take quick motion.

All through the season, Ten Hag has been sharply criticized for United's poor performances, typically leaving a lot to be desired.

Even when the 20-time English champions have gained, they’ve completed so extremely typically and infrequently required some luck or luck to recover from the road. An instance of that is Ross Barkley's very late assault on the submit within the conflict at Kenilworth Street final week.

United's type of play, or lack thereof, so to talk, has been a recurring theme all through the season and the group lastly caught as much as it, dropping their first recreation because the flip of the yr. Not many individuals will argue towards the truth that defeat is coming.

A stunning statistic revealed by Statesman Dave reveals that United have conceded 435 pictures within the Premier League within the present marketing campaign.

To place this into context, solely newly promoted Sheffield United have conceded extra. The Blades are backside of the desk with simply 13 factors after 25 matches performed.

In United's final 5 matches towards Fulham, Luton City, Aston Villa, West Ham and Wolves, the membership have conceded 17, 22, 23, 22 and 16 pictures respectively.

In whole, Ten Hag's stars have confronted 100 pictures of their final 5 Premier League outings.

Ten Hag's strategy is unsustainable in the long term and can’t proceed, lest United proceed to endure losses and their managers without end overtaken by rival homeowners.

The Dutchman has typically blamed accidents for his group's poor kind and he used the identical excuse for United's defeat towards Fulham.

This time he cited the shortage of a match and pure left-back.

Requested if he had ever thought of altering his strategy amid accidents and a number of other gamers being sidelined, ten Hag stated no.

He defined that completely different gamers have completely different qualities and everybody has to adapt however basically, “the rules stay the identical.”

United face an FA Cup tie towards Nottingham Forest on Wednesday earlier than the unenviable process of touring to the Etihad to face Pep Guardiola's Manchester Metropolis.

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