Manchester United is in crisis, everybody know that. He is in the permanent crisis since sir Alex Ferguson left the club but every year, the fans are a bit optimistic that things will turn out of the best and again, that optimism proves to be false. After a rude awakening during the opening day of the Premier League, the fans are desperate again, since they witnessed a defeat at Old Trafford from Brighton, which is a similar picture form last season, even thou they changed the coach. And according to their former player, those defeats, even at home turf will continue to happen, as he knows that tactics which teams apply.United didn’t listen to Ranginck’s advices, but City didBen Foster spent four seasons at the Old Trafford (2005-2010) before settling in Watford in 2018, where he witnessed a 4-1 victory at Vicarage Road and a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford. Being a relegation candidate who was eventually relegated, the Hornets were able to take four points from the Champions League bound Red Devils and Foster revealed the tactics. „When you’re playing someone like Man United you’ve just got to go up against them. They have got quality players but if you get up into them they will struggle a little bit and that’s always the way that we tried to approach those games. Going back to Liverpool and Man City, we would be scared about trying to get up into their faces, because they have got so much more technical ability to play it round you and if they get behind you – you’re struggling, full stop“ said Foster to TalkSport, basically admitting that United players are not technically gifted.Ten Hag turns to plan D – a forward from PSV?Former United keeper said the most telling part – the 0-0 draw at Old Trafford, when it was actually the home crowd who did the most damage.„The home game was great that we won 4-1 but I’d say it was the away game that was the most telling because we went away to Old Trafford, bearing in mind we were a struggling team last season, but we made a point of getting in their faces. The longer the game went on the more Manchester United fans would get onto the Manchester United players’ backs and you could feel this sort of atmosphere and that’s what’s wrong with it at the minute. There’s a little bit of an atmosphere and around Old Trafford where they’re used to winning, they’ve got Cristiano Ronaldo back in the ranks expecting to still be scoring hat-tricks and it’s not quite working like that at the minute” said Foster.##NAJAVA_MECA_6556918##And even thou they have changed coaches since (and also brought in some players, but not many of them), Manchester can still be beaten by the same tactics as Foster already described, as Brighton showed last Sunday. „Manchester United in general are vulnerable. I watched the game and predicted before the game that Manchester United would lose the game. Fair play to Brighton, they’ve lost a couple of massive players, Cucurella, Bissouma going as well, and you would expect it to have taken a toll on them. They went there and they played the way Graham Potter gets them playing and they looked technically just as good as Man United if not better and that’s the worrying part when a team like Brighton comes to Old Trafford and looks just as good as Man United” said Foster.
