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Manchester United legend Gary Neville has mentioned that the membership’s loss to Brighton and Hove Albion doesn’t bode nicely for Erik ten Hag’s future at Previous Trafford.
Ten Hag narrowly survived a poor 2023/24 season that noticed United end in eighth place, largely as a consequence of masterminding a 2-1 win over Manchester Metropolis within the FA Cup remaining.
Many anticipated Sir Jim Ratcliffe to sack him however after a prolonged end-of-season assessment, the Pink Devils elected to afford him extra time to show the scenario round.
After a optimistic opening to the Premier League season courtesy of beating Fulham 1-0, United’s progress suffered a setback as they misplaced 2-1 to Brighton on the Amex earlier immediately.
Amad Diallo cancelled out Danny Welbeck’s first-half opener. Alejandro Garnacho appeared to have overturned the deficit by ending off an beautiful counter-attack, however his objective was chalked off after Joshua Zirkzee was deemed to have touched the ball on the road.
A headed end from Joao Pedro within the dying moments of stoppage time sealed United’s destiny and denied them a share of the spoils.
Neville spoke on NBC Sports activities (through The Day by day Mail) and remarked, “A very miserable finish to the sport.”
“I assumed a draw would have been half acceptable however to lose the sport places an terrible lot of strain on Erik ten Hag and on in the direction of the sport subsequent week towards Liverpool.”
“I feel the primary half of the sport I don’t assume anybody was stunned.”
“It’s very troublesome to play soccer with out a centre ahead. You want a focus up entrance and he corrected that at half-time by bringing [Joshua] Zirkzee on, however you’ve already wasted 45 minutes within the match and that’s an issue.”
“Within the second half, and the primary objective was poor defensively, however that final objective I’ve simply watched it, while you clear from a nook you’ve bought to nonetheless defend as you’d the second part of a nook.”
Neville added, “Specifically in case you watch Casemiro it appears to be like to me like he leaves his place on the again submit and goes again into central midfield however it then leaves acres of area within the again zone.”
“A scarcity of focus, a scarcity of focus, and it does put some strain on them.”
Throughout his presser, Ten Hag himself bemoaned the style by which United conceded towards Brighton, as he branded each targets as “tender.”
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