Claiming trophy can no longer save a career but a convincing Manchester United display would generate owners’ goodwill
Manchester United's head coach Erik ten Hag has a devil of a job to try and stop Liverpool in Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final at Old Trafford.Manchester United's head coach Erik ten Hag has a devil of a job to try and stop Liverpool in Sunday’s FA Cup quarter-final at Old Trafford.
It was thrilling, it was fraught and at any second it might have gone wrong for United and Ferguson.
The problem is that, on recent form, such a performance is hard to conceive. United may be the only side to have prevented Liverpool scoring this season,at Anfield, they gave up 34 shots. Even allowing for the way Liverpool lost discipline in that game, pinging in shots from all ranges, that is not sustainable as a defensive strategy. But these days United always allow the opposition a high volume of opportunities: they’ve faced 198 shots in their past 10 games.