If the win over Liverpool boosted Erik ten Hag’s employment prospects, Manchester United’s wretched display at Brentford dropped the manager back in the mire…We should have known. That 4-3 victory in the FA Cup was a consequence of chaos and offered no suggestion of a sustainable improvement. At Brentford, United reverted to the same dross that has left Ten Hag on trial for his job.
Despite being largely s**** for 105 minutes in west London, United should be two points closer. They appeared to have pulled off another late heist when Mason Mount scored his first goal for the club six minutes into added time. But even then, the Red Devils managed to find time to highlight their ineptness to draw a game they should have won and lost.
If the visit to Brentford last term illustrated the size of the task facing Ten Hag, tonight’s trip highlighted how far short the United boss has fallen in his mission. There is more than enough blame to spread around and spare any one individual being scapegoated, but the new decision-makers at Old Trafford cannot have seen anything worth salvaging from another nadir.
United were set up with a defence, a forward line, and a half-fit Kobbie Mainoo doing his darnedest to fill the gaping void between. Mainoo is having a fine breakout campaign, one of the rare bright spots in dark season, but even England’s newest starboy needs a hand. Scott McTominay, while useful for a burst into the box, is incapable of offering it or being told to do something else.
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