Graham Potter exposes Manchester United

Manos Staramopoulos • 8 de agosto de 2022

Brighton Hove & Albion win at Old Trafford for first time with a high performance that leaves Man United very affected

Graham Potter head coach Brighton and Hove

The official debut of the Dutchman Erik Ten Haag on the bench of Manchester United, against Brighton, turned into a summer nightmare and in fact, inside the "Theatre of Dreams". Brighton, under the guidance of Graham Potter, managed to beat United for the first time in their history 1-2 at "Old Trafford". The star of the "Seagulls" was the 31-year-old German striker, Pascal Gross, who scored both of the visitors' goals (30', 39' - reduced by an own goal by McAllister in the 68').


Brighton, it should be noted, celebrated their second successive win over United in the space of a few months, having crushed them 4-0 at home last May. With ten Haag for his part becoming the first Red Devils manager to lose in a league opener since Louis van Gaal in August 2014 against Swansea.


Ten Haag's new United, who threw Cristiano Ronaldo into the fray in the 52nd minute, showed great weaknesses. Bruno Fernandes and the Brazilian, Fred in the midfield cannot offer anything more, while in the attack Rashford, although he was quite improved, could not threaten the opposing goal as he would have liked. Young and highly paid international winger Jadon Sancho was out of sorts and never once managed to dribble past an opponent. The only one who stood out was the international Danish midfielder, Christian Eriksen but he was very much alone!!!


Manchester United, needs reinforcements with players of class and not talent so that one can claim that they will claim a place in the top 4 leading to the next Champions League. The management will have to spend many millions of euros and the main thing is to acquire footballers of known value and not children for the...future. Otherwise, it will be between 6th and 8th place again this year.



They demonstrated


Characteristically, Manchester United fans gathered outside Old Trafford before the match and demonstrated with banners and slogans against The Glazers.


Ten Haag, meanwhile, clearly troubled, after the disappointing performance stated:


"Brighton are a good team and they deserve to be congratulated but I look at my team and we shouldn't have conceded two such cheap goals. It's a disappointing setback. I knew from the start that I wasn't going to have an easy task"



In the second half we were better in midfield, having Eriksen low and Ronaldo high. We created and Rashford had two good chances, shame we didn't score in those phases.


United play at home to Brentford next Saturday (13/8) for the 2nd matchday and need to rebuild urgently.



Arnautovic


At the same time, it is now trying to strengthen its offensive line and is considering the case of the 33-year-old Austrian striker, Marko Arnautovic, having even submitted an offer of 8.1 million euros to Bologna to acquire him.


Arnautovic has previously played in the Premier League, with Stoke City and West Ham. In the summer of 2021 he returned to the European courts after his two-year stint in China on behalf of Shanghai.


In fact, last season he scored 15 goals in 34 matches, while if Arnautovic joins Manchester United, he will be reunited with Erik Ten Haag after 13 years, after they had worked together in Holland and Twente.


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