Erik ten Hag knows who is to blame as Man Utd boss suffers fresh setback at West Ham

Manchester United manager Erik 10 Hag erstwhile again finds himself drinking successful the past accidental saloon pursuing a disastrous 2-1 decision distant astatine struggling West Ham

For a fewer moments, Erik 10 Hag stood statue-still connected the touchline, looking arsenic though helium did not cognize who to face first.

David Coote, who had someway listened to Michael Oliver and given the astir dubious of winning penalties to West Ham? Or possibly his ain Diogo Dalot, who had produced a miss of the play contender arsenic Manchester United squandered accidental aft accidental to dispose of mediocre opposition?

Instead, Ten Hag kept his dignity, shook Coote by the hand, applauded the travelling fans and made a crisp exit.

Of course, this 1 is connected him. Of course, helium has to instrumentality work for different miserable loss. Of course, the large representation of his Old Trafford tenure is not astatine each pretty. Of people helium is successful the past accidental saloon.

But the past accidental saloon has been Ten Hag’s section for a long, agelong clip - and thing tin person tasted arsenic bitter arsenic this.

So, yes, the decision was connected Ten Hag but the decision was besides connected Dalot and connected the determination that allowed Jarrod Bowen to people the victor from the spot.

It was not conscionable Dalot who was culpable. Exactly 2 years, Alejandro Garnacho made his elder debut and this was his 100th appearance, truthful helium is nary rookie, nary prodigy, and 12 goals successful 66 Premier League outings is thing to constitute location about. But this 20-year-old has a frightening magnitude of untapped potential. Right now, though, the youngster fits into that aged chestnut of a class - helium tin nutrient large finishes but helium is not a large finisher.

He tin people THE extremity of the 23/24 play with an overhead footwear and expertly person the toughest of volleys successful the constrictive triumph implicit Brentford recently. But helium tin deed the crossbar erstwhile helium should person scored from 1 Bruno Fernandes pass, similar helium did here, and helium tin skew a one-on-one accidental wide, similar helium besides did here.

To beryllium fair, helium had plentifulness of rivals erstwhile it came to wastefulness, Fernandes missing a headed sitter earlier Dalot told his skipper to clasp his beer, blazing implicit aft it looked similar helium could locomotion the shot into an bare net.

The accidental was presented to Dalot by a Lukasz Fabianski mistake - conscionable 1 of a catalogue of errors that characterised the location side’s lamentable archetypal fractional performance.

To beryllium just to Julen Lopetegui, helium acted decisively astatine the interval and 3 replacements made a difference, with Crysencio Summerville, successful particular, shaking West Ham into life.

Summerville was everything the Hammers had not been successful the opening 45 minutes - direct, adventurous and quick. He was fortunate to payment from a Danny Ings mis-kick erstwhile helium cleverly prodded successful his archetypal West Ham extremity but helium deserved that luck.

But talking of luck, that was thing compared to the location team’s luck aft Casemiro had headed successful an equaliser.

There cannot person been a psyche successful the stadium who thought Matthijs de Ligt had committed an offence erstwhile helium collided with Ings during a spot of a melee.

But Oliver sent Coote to the surface and, astir apologetically, the on-field referee pointed to the spot and Ten Hag was doomed to different decision and different week successful the past accidental saloon.

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