Published October 06,2024
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Manchester United floor out a 0-0 draw at Aston Villa on Sunday with the membership struggling their worst begin to a season within the Premier League period and hypothesis rife about the way forward for under-fire supervisor Erik ten Hag.
The draw sends Unai Emery’s males into the worldwide break in fifth within the desk on 14 factors after seven video games, whereas United are languishing in 14th with eight factors.
Their factors tally is United’s lowest of their opening seven matches of a Premier League marketing campaign and their lowest in any league season since 1989-90 (seven factors), after they went on to complete thirteenth underneath Alex Ferguson — his lowest league end as supervisor.
“I think it’s the fourth clean sheet this season,” Ten Hag stated as he regarded for positives. “You see we had a very good organisation and togetherness. There was good character and good spirit as a team. Determined, resilient.”
United captain Bruno Fernandes had the perfect likelihood of the sport for both group, clanging a free kick off the crossbar from outdoors the field within the 68th minute. Antony then missed the goal with the rebound and with keeper Emi Martinez out of his objective.
Villa’s Jaden Philogene had a spectacular effort at a objective in stoppage time after Matthijs de Ligt missed Morgan Rogers’ drilled ball throughout the objective. Philogene’s shot heading for the online earlier than Diogo Dalot turned to dam it along with his again. Emery buried his head in his palms in frustration.
United’s woeful begin to the season has put Ten Hag again within the highlight and the group’s whole senior management — co-owner Jim Ratcliffe, CEO Omar Berrada, sporting director Dan Ashworth, and technical director Jason Wilcox — had been in attendance at Villa Park for what many believed was a pivotal recreation for the supervisor.
“It does affect the players,” United defender Jonny Evans stated of the rumours concerning the supervisor’s future. “It’s on our minds too.”
The afternoon was a story of groups headed in several instructions, with United struggling a horrible begin, and Villa having fun with their greatest starting to a marketing campaign since 2008-09 and coming off a 1-0 Champions League win over Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
“It’s not a bad result, but it’s not the best,” Emery stated. “How we played, I think the draw is fair for both teams. We missed some energy but I am happy because the draw was not the worst result. In the second half we corrected some things to control the match.”
United performed with significantly extra confidence and togetherness than their earlier two matches — a woeful 3-0 league loss to Tottenham Hotspur final weekend adopted by a 3-3 Europa League draw with Porto on Thursday that noticed them quit a two-goal lead.
United’s Marcus Rashford had a few close to misses, with Villa keeper Martinez pressured right into a diving save within the recreation’s early minutes, after which leaping to push a shot over the bar quickly after halftime.
Rogers blazed a shot simply large of United’s web within the first half.
Villa defender Ezri Konsa limped to the bench within the twelfth minute after taking place clutching his hamstring — a blow for each Villa and England, forward of the nationwide aspect’s upcoming Nations League video games in opposition to Greece and Finland.
United misplaced oft-injured defender Harry Maguire, who limped off the pitch on the finish of the primary half.
Source: www.anews.com.tr