Man Utd flops nudge Erik ten Hag closer to the sack despite late Porto equaliser

PORTO 3-3 MANCHESTER UNITED: Whatever Erik 10 Hag whitethorn accidental astir him and Manchester United's hierarchy being aligned and connected the aforesaid page, 1 happening is wide – his players are astir surely not

Harry Maguire rescued Manchester United - but Erik 10 Hag was inactive nudged person to the sack.

Whatever Ten Hag whitethorn accidental astir him and United's hierarchy being aligned and connected the aforesaid page, 1 happening is wide – his players are astir surely not. How other to explicate however United managed to stroke a 2-0 lead, erstwhile successful power of the game, to permission Ten Hag erstwhile again looking similar a dormant antheral walking contempt Maguire's stoppage clip equaliser.

Skipper Bruno Fernandes, experienced cardinal defenders Matthijs De Ligt and Lisandro Martinez, and midfield duo Casemiro and Christian Eriksen played arsenic if they cognize Ten Hag is already connected his way. After past Sunday's 3-0 mauling astatine location to Tottenham, which could person been an adjacent much humiliating scoreline, United needed to beryllium choky defensively and ensure, astatine the precise least, they did not permission Porto defeated.

But aft establishing a two-goal advantage, United reverted to type, ceding possession cheaply, failing to transportation retired the precise basal principles of defending and managing to suffer a crippled which, successful each likelihood, volition pb to Ten Hag being replaced.

On Sunday, United spell to Aston Villa, 5th successful the Premier League and connected a precocious aft their stunning Champions League triumph implicit Bayern Munich. If United are arsenic ragged astatine Villa Park arsenic they were here, Ten Hag whitethorn arsenic good wide his table now.

United were nether unit consecutive away, Porto guardant Galeno forcing Andre Onana to extremity his goalbound effort implicit the bar. But it was United who went up successful the seventh minute, aft a good idiosyncratic tally from Marcus Rashford. Christian Eriksen recovered Rashford retired wide connected the near and his intent was wide arsenic soon arsenic helium picked up possession and ran astatine Joao Mario and Stephen Eustaquio, skipping past some earlier executing a low, adjacent station effort.

Porto goalkeeper Diogo Costa volition wince erstwhile helium watches replays of the goal, allowing the shot to squirm nether him and implicit the line, erstwhile helium should person made a regular save.

Worse was to travel from Costa successful the 20th minute, erstwhile helium was beaten erstwhile again astatine his adjacent post, this clip by Rasmus Hojlund, who claimed his archetypal extremity of the season, the Porto keeper getting a manus to the shot but incapable to support it from going implicit the line.

But United's propensity for self-implosion reared its caput erstwhile more, allowing Porto a mode backmost into the contention with a extremity successful the 27th minute. Onana did good to thenar distant a goalbound header from his ain defender, Noussair Mazraoui, but Pepe reacted quickest to the rebound, beating Martinez to stoop and motion the shot in.

United were inactive reeling from that extremity erstwhile the hosts drew level 7 minutes later, Samu getting up of Matthijs De Ligt to conscionable a transverse from Mario and powerfulness a close-range header beyond the scope of Onana.

Rashford did not look for the second-half, replaced by Garnacho, but United could not blasted that alteration for astir going down wrong 2 minutes of the restart, Onana blocking a changeable from Francisco Moura.

But Porto did not person to hold agelong to instrumentality the lead, United's antiaircraft frailty exposed 3 minutes later, Samu getting up of the hapless De Ligt again to conscionable a Pepe transverse and steer a first-time decorativeness into the extortion of the net.

Fernandes, sent disconnected against Spurs connected Sunday, saw reddish again arsenic helium was dismissed for 2 bookings. But the 10 men battled backmost with Maguire nodding successful a last-gasp header.

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