Last Updated: December 10, 2023, 15:04 IST
Alex Ferguson managed Manchester United for a report 21 season. (AFP Photo)
Manchester United proceed to wrestle with consistency of their ongoing season.
Saturday was one other forgettable day for erstwhile Premier League powerhouse Manchester United as they went down the Bournemouth 0-3 at Old Trafford – just some days after beating Chelsea.
This was the primary time of their historical past that Manchester United have misplaced to Bournemouth at dwelling. However, an excellent damning stat has emerged from their sorry present.
Manchester United have now misplaced extra Premier League video games at Old Trafford because the retirement of their former supervisor Sir Alex Ferguson than they misplaced throughout his reign.
According to Squawka, Manchester United misplaced 34 occasions at Old Trafford throughout Ferguson’s 21-season (405 video games) in cost as he turned their dwelling right into a fortress.
However, because the Ferguson’s exit. the membership has now misplaced 35 Premier League video games at dwelling (199 video games since Ferguson’s closing match in cost).
Since the Scot’s legendary run with the membership ended, Manchester United have gone via a sequence of excessive profile managers together with Jose Mourinho, Louis van Gaal, David Moyes, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Ralf Rangnick however neither has been capable of restore the membership to their former glory.
The 20-time Premier League winners turned to Dutch Erik ten Hag who received a silverware in his first season in cost however has been enduring a torrid time within the ongoing marketing campaign.
The defeat to Bournemouth was Manchester United’s seventh of the continuing Premier League season. They are positioned sixth on the factors desk, trailing desk-toppers and bitter rivals Liverpool by 10 factors.
Speaking after the match, Ten Hag had admitted to have been aggravated and pissed off on the lack of consistency from his squad.
“We are really inconsistent. We have the abilities to do it, but you have to do it every game and every third day,” he mentioned. “I think as a squad we are not good enough to be consistent and we have to work as a squad to improve that.”
