Man Utd rage at late penalty decision but check out the stats that prove they only have themselves to blame

MANCHESTER UNITED fumed aft conceding a arguable precocious punishment but they should person wrapped up the lucifer by half-time.

Erik 10 Hag's broadside missed respective opportunities to instrumentality the pb and someway the lucifer remained goalless astatine half-time.

Diogo Dalot adjacent missed an unfastened goal aft poking the shot past Alphonse Areola earlier firing implicit the bar.

United managed 8 shots successful the archetypal fractional but conscionable 2 of those were connected target.

And they went into the interruption with an xG of 1.48, compared to West Ham's 0.04.

But the location broadside came retired firing aft half-time and looked a wholly antithetic side, putting unit connected the Red Devils.

They recovered a breakthrough with 15 minutes to spell done Cryscenio Summerville, earlier United yet recovered the nett acknowledgment to Casemiro six minutes later.

West Ham pushed for a victor and ended the lucifer with 2.98 xG, truthful possibly deserved a interaction of luck erstwhile Mattijs de Ligt was judged to person fouled Danny Ings for a precocious penalty, which Jarrod Bowen enactment away.

But United finished the crippled with an xG of 2.12, truthful if not for mediocre finishing could person had a constituent oregon much from their sojourn to East London.

It is simply a acquainted communicative for Ten Hag's strugglers, who are possibly the worst finishers successful the league.

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No squad has a bigger antagonistic differential betwixt expected goals and goals scored successful the Premier League, with United producing conscionable 8 goals from an xG of 14.6, per Opta.

Ten Hag is present nether sizeable unit having won conscionable 3 of his 9 Prem games this season.

He bemoaned the missed chances aft the crippled and erstwhile asked astir Dalot's clanger, helium said: "I tin besides accidental Alejandro Garnacho twice, Rasmus Hojlund 1 time, Rashford and Bruno.

"It is not just to prime 1 of the players retired who missed chances. There were truthful galore who missed chances.

"It was wide and evident that the champion squad didn't win. We created truthful galore chances, played specified bully football. So dominant. I collected six oregon 7 100 per cent chances we should person scored.

"I judge successful my players that they are susceptible of doing this, I spot them and volition promote them to support going, support doing the aforesaid things we did successful this crippled and others.

"Finally it volition spell successful the nett and termination and we triumph much games. We request amended conversion, we are looking to creating much chances due to the fact that some volition springiness you a higher accidental to triumph the game.

"What my players and I ever bash is look successful the mirror, what did we bash wrong. The lone happening I tin criticise my squad for is missing the chances - that was the main factor."