Ten Hag time at United starts with rout to Brighton
New chief Erik ten Hag saw the profundity of the emergency at Manchester United when his side tumbled to a 2-1 Premier League rout by Brighton and Hove Albion at Old Trafford on Sunday, with German Pascal Gross scoring two times.
Joined fans' expectations that the slow time of year would check a defining moment have blurred, with the club neglecting to take significant actions yet in the exchange market and there was a horrid commonality to the club's initial match.
The previous Ajax mentor saw a presentation that was just as incoherent as those delivered under his ancestors Ralf Rangnick and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer last season.
The feeling that this was a continuation of last year's decay started before start off where there were at this point more clearly and furious fights against United's proprietors, the American Glazer family, under the South Stand
In the event that that felt recognizable, seeing Scott McTominay and Fred in midfield as United toiled against Graham Potter's brilliantly penetrated side was coming close to this feels familiar.
Joined had been shambolic in their 4-0 misfortune at Brighton in May and, even with debuts for safeguard Lisandro Martinez and midfielder Christian Eriksen, little had a new or changed outlook on the presentation.
Brighton started to lead the pack on the half-hour with Leandro Trossard finding previous United forward Danny Welbeck who squared the ball to the back present for Gross on opening home.
After nine minutes, Gross multiplied the lead, with his 6th vocation objective against United, after David De Gea had ineffectively pushed out a Solly March crash solidly into the way of the German who again committed no error.
Ten Hag presented Cristiano Ronaldo in the 53rd moment and the Portugal forward, who is accounted for to need to leave the club, gave the flash to United's endeavored rebound.
The home side gave themselves a traction in the 68th moment when a goalmouth scramble finished with Alexis Mac Allister transforming the ball into his own net yet Brighton hung on briefly straight win against United and their very first at Old Trafford.