Two games in and Erik ten Hag has seen enough. First Brighton, then Brentford. A nightmare scenario is unfolding for Manchester United’s new manager and he knows urgent action is required.
Back-to-back defeats by two of the Premier League’s lesser lights has plunged United into an early-season crisis, and Ten Hag’s third game is the biggest in the English football calendar, against Liverpool at Old Trafford on Monday night.
Jurgen Klopp’s side humiliated their old rivals 9-0 on aggregate home and away last season, and the only consolation for Ten Hag is that it might be better to catch Liverpool early in the new campaign on the evidence of their two draws against Fulham and Crystal Palace.