Gary Neville says the strain on Erik ten Hag will develop into “unbearable” if Manchester United lose to Chelsea subsequent Sunday.
United had been crushed 2-1 at West Ham after conceding a controversial late penalty however had missed a number of possibilities within the first half.
The consequence noticed the Hammers transfer above United on objectives scored, leaving Ten Hag’s aspect in 14th place within the Premier League after 9 matches.
It is their second-worst begin to a Premier League season by way of factors complete and much from the beginning the membership’s house owners would have envisaged after ultimately backing Ten Hag after the FA Cup win final season and spending over £200m within the switch window.
“I always think that anybody that’s half-decent, that can play, will beat this United team,” stated the Sky Sports activities pundit on The Gary Neville Podcast. “I simply suppose anyone that is half-decent, that places their shoulders up and has the standard, which Chelsea have gotten in elements of the pitch, and Man Utd are at risk.
“I do not suppose there might be one other defeat subsequent Sunday at Outdated Trafford. I genuinely do not.
“I feel it is attending to that time now the place there’s a actual fear. I am frightened as a result of the outcomes, the shortage of objectives, the shortage of performances, it is stacking up week after week after week, and there might be some form of causes given [on Sunday] – I am not going to say excuses – however causes given round lacking possibilities. However they hold lacking possibilities. These are the gamers which were recruited during the last couple of seasons primarily.
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“It’s a sobering time because the feeling was after winning the FA Cup final and investing well, having a more smooth transfer window, that now it’s looking like here we are again at that moment where it’s going badly wrong.
“It is attending to that time the place it’s going to develop into insufferable, the strain on this subsequent week or two round Erik ten Hag.
“Just purely the position in the league, they are 14th. Manchester United… I mean, it’s Manchester United. He can’t be 14th in the league. He can be after one or two games, maybe, but not after nine, not after 10.”
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Sky Sports activities reporter Paul Gilmour and senior soccer journalist Pete Smith mirror on West Ham’s victory over Manchester United within the Premier League.
On the controversial penalty award, which noticed referee David Coote despatched to the pitchside monitor by VAR Michael Oliver earlier than ultimately overruling his real-time resolution to not award a spot-kick for Matthijs De Ligt’s collision with Danny Ings, Neville stated: “Every team gets a bad decision but that one wasn’t right for a couple of reasons.
“De Ligt comes out, it is not like a unfastened ball with Danny Ings, it is bobbling within the field they usually each form of go for it and it is like a knee from De Ligt that simply makes contact with Ings, and it is nothing actually.
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Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag was left very annoyed after his aspect misplaced 2-1 to West Ham in controversial vogue as Jarrod Bowen’s late penalty condemned the Purple Devils to a defeat.
“The referee doesn’t give a penalty on the pitch, David Coote, and then we’re watching it and he gets called over to the screen by Michael Oliver on VAR.
“However the attention-grabbing factor for me was when David Coote went over, he will need to have watched it eight occasions, and I am screaming on the tv. I feel he would not suppose this can be a penalty, he isn’t having this, however he turns round and he overturns his authentic resolution and it wasn’t proper.
“I think the pressure maybe of being sent over to the screen by Michael Oliver, a dominant referee… No one likes to upset their superiors. You think of it when you’re a young player in the dressing room and you have a senior player in the dressing room, or if you’re young in the office and someone senior in the office makes a call you don’t really want to tell them that they’re wrong.
“I feel it was a little bit of that as a result of I am unsure David Coote was anyplace close to pondering that that was a penalty. And it was an enormous shock, and in the long run Jarrod Bowen steps up, takes the penalty, it is emphatic, and United lose the sport.”
What did Ten Hag say about Coote and Oliver?
Erik ten Hag: “I do not criticise any personnel however I criticise the method. Off-field was Michael Oliver [VAR], on-field it’s a must to decide within the closing second. He did I feel three minutes to resolve to make this name. You need to present large character to re-call this resolution an skilled VAR has made.”
