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They did their job, however so dangerous was the entire season {that a} final-day win couldn’t save Manchester United from their lowest-ever Premier League end.
Regardless of profitable 2-0 away at Brighton, Newcastle’s win at Brentford made positive that United wouldn’t simply tie their lowest-ever end of seventh, however set a brand new file altogether.
Going into the ultimate matchday, United wanted Newcastle to drop factors whereas profitable their very own sport to leapfrog them into seventh.
That may have tied with the end within the 2013-14 season, the notorious David Moyes experiment which had Ryan Giggs within the dugout by the top.
Nonetheless, the Magpies received 4-2 and so Erik ten Hag now replaces Moyes because the supervisor who engineered United’s worst league end within the Premier League period.
With that, United have misplaced the possibility to qualify for any European soccer in anyway subsequent season by means of the league.
Profitable the FA Cup ultimate will give them a Europa League place however they face the Manchester Metropolis juggernaut recent from profitable 4 titles on the bounce.
It has been one lengthy nightmare for United followers with accidents and questionable ways leaving the membership lurching from one collapse to a different.
What began as a season of hope, to construct on final yr’s third-place end, shortly grew to become a wait-and-watch catastrophe film.
The supervisor is now beneath intense strain to not less than be extraordinarily aggressive within the ultimate towards Metropolis, if not outright profitable it.
Something much less, and it might be an enormous shock to see Ten Hag within the dugout subsequent season.
In any case, earlier managers on the membership have been dismissed for lots much less, irrespective of the mitigating components.
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