The lowest Manchester United goals tally in the Premier League era came in Louis van Gaal’s second season. This is worse.
On a night that Manchester United honoured the life of arguably their greatest ever legend, the current crop just about stayed in the competition thatNew heroes emerged in beleaguered duo Harry Maguire and Andre Onana
McTominay could perhaps be forgiven for his misdeed and the debatable penalty he gave away as he’s currently United’s top scorer in the Premier League after nine games, with all three of his goals coming in the last two games, but the other two have only contributed a combined two goals to date. The absence of Luke Shaw and Lisandro Martinez is another major issue, one that is deeply affecting the tactical set-up and tempo of the side.
Add in the fact he’s only 20 years old, joined a club lurching from one disaster to the next, and had a back injury to deal with upon arrival, and you can only applaud his performances to date and his joint-position at the top of the Champions League goalscoring charts. It also has seen potentially positive results fall away, notably at Spurs when United missed several gilt-edged opportunities with the game scoreless before ultimately wilting and losing yet another high-profile away game.
Compared to an average of 77.95 in the 18 38-game seasons of the Premier League under the iron rule of Fergie, United have scored just 61.6 in the 10 years since, with the 2020/21 Covid season under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer the only one that saw them breach the 70-goal mark, and even then, that was caveated by 15 of the 73 coming in two matches; there were eight games in which they did not score.
These scoring issues, as well as numerous others in the team and at the club, are problems Ten Hag must remedy if his second season is not to go the way of his Dutch predecessor, and he faces perhaps the complete contrast this weekend in Manchester City.
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