Ten Hag’s incompetence cost Man Utd

West Ham 2-1 Man Utd (Summerville 74′, Bowen 90+2′ pen | Casemiro 81′)

LONDON STADIUM – The penalty that equalized West Ham Rush settled a game in overtime that they could have lost by a bucket before halftime. A sense of injustice is allowed Eric the Hag get rid of the familiar excuses, but the facts are as brazen as his head. This is not a man who can lead Manchester United.

Four league defeats out of nine is not a coincidental statistic. Yes, they wasted four great chances in the space of half an hour, but in the second half that old inertia returned and a team that had played flatter than its back for 45 minutes, led by a manager even more unpopular than Ten Hag, turned the result on its head after three dynamic changes.

Where Julen Lopetegui took advantage of the day on break, Ten Hag sat back and waited for something to happen, which led to the now common result. United fell behind at first, and after scoring the equalizer ten minutes from time, found a way not to make good on all the promises made at the start of the match.

Michael Oliver’s VAR intervention may have been another performative twist that stunned everyone except himself and center David Coote, but it cannot be allowed to mask the extent of the incompetence of the coach overseeing the match. United’s continued decline.

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If Ineos’ new co-owners can’t see this with their expensively assembled, so-called “best-in-class” engineering department, then they are as unlikely as the Dutchman. It’s hard to describe how poor West Ham were until the appearance of the speedy Crysencio Summerville, strangely overlooked early in the match, and Tomas Soucek early in the second half.

Alejandra Garnacho he could have had two goals in the first eight minutes. Of the many problems Ten Hag failed to solve, the most problematic was finding the back of the net. If Erling Haaland or Mo Salah had fed on Bruno Fernandes’ safe-cracking passes, West Ham would have been on life support.

Fernandes was no better when heading in Casemiro it flew over the crossbar and Łukasz Fabiański waved in the air. Diogo Dalot one-upped the pair with a classic of its kind, smashing the ball into an empty net after flicking it over the keeper. Amazing.

The clock struck 31 as Dalot fired up the fourth, which vividly explains why United failed to score in the first 35 minutes of either match. First league match this season. They are yet to score 60 league goals in a season under Ten Hag and are currently suffering a goal difference deficit this season.

The confidence with which United started the game was always at risk of being weakened, but in West Ham they had a visiting opponent in the first half who had poor organizational conditions. Gaps in midfield made it easier for Manchester to reset. Unsuccessful attacks were quickly used against the team that was unable to keep possession of the ball.

So the first half was like a parade where Fernandes and Casemiro could do whatever they wanted. The latter has been gradually rehabilitated since being flushed against Liverpool at Old Trafford and in the space he has been given here, he still rolls like a Bentley. His one-touch interplay with Fernandes was orchestral and repeatedly released Garnacho on the left.

But it all ended in nothing. The Ten Witches rightly complained about what it looked like Prima facie Not only was this a terrible decision, but it was also an unnecessary intervention after the show was over. Either way, what came before condemns him and those who keep him in office.