With seven rounds before the end of the Premier League, Manchester United is the team with the fewest goals conceded in the Top 10 in the table. Erik ten Hag’s team has scored 45 goals in 31 games so far. For example, even 30 less than the leading Arsenal, 27 less than Liverpool, and 26 less than Manchester City. Much more efficient are Tottenham (65) and Aston Villa (66), who are also ahead of the club from Old Trafford in the table. Manchester United’s current goal difference is -1, thanks to the sixth best defense in the league, conceding 46 times. Ten Hag is aware that for next season, if he keeps his job at all, he needs a more lethal attack, which he already emphasized.”I think that would help us. We need more options, we have to have a choice for each position, and this season for the positions of attacker and left back, this was not the case. And it had a negative impact on the results,” the Dutchman believes.Marcus Rashford is the FOURTH @ManUtd player to win a @budfootball Goal of the Month award this season! pic.twitter.com/9fvjEfP2IS— Premier League (@premierleague) April 12, 2024 United brought Rasmus Hojlund from Atalanta for 74,000,000 euros last June. The young Dane scored 13 goals in 34 appearances this season (counting all competitions). Marcus Rashford has scored eight times in 38 games and Anthony Martial twice in 19 matches, with the Frenchman out of the team due to injury since June. Ten Hag and his colleagues had much higher expectations when they made projections for the 2023/2024 season.”We counted on more goals from Rashford because he scored 30 last season. We also counted on Martial’s goals, since in my first season he played well and especially stood out in important games. We added a goalscorer like Hojlund to them and we believed that he would that should be enough for us to score a good number of goals” said the Dutchman.United’s young star Mainoo: The Liverpool draw overshines my first Old Trafford goalConsidering the changes in the management of Manchester United, Ten Hag will make plans for the next transfer window with new people in the club. After buying part of the shares, Jim Ratcliffe became the first person in the sports sector and brought in Omar Berada from Manchester City as the executive director, who is trying to take sports director Dan Ashworth from Newcastle.”I am open to cooperation with new people. My colleagues and I have already started making plans with the scouts. We have some quality players on our radar. In the past we have brought Onana who has performed well, Hojlund in whom everyone sees great potential, Lisandro Martinez who were also satisfied, as well as some other players. If the new directors have new and better ideas, of course we are open to hearing them. I trust the new management, but we have the way we want to play and the profile of the players we want, so that their proposals will have to match that,” Ten Hag stressed.ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE – MATCHDAY 33Saturday 14:30: (2.80) Newcastle (3.60) Tottenham (2.40)17:00: (1.45) Brentford (4.80) Sheffield Utd (8.00)17:00: (2.20) Nott.Forest (3.45) Wolverhampton (3.25)17:00: (1.10) Man.City (11.0) Luton (18.0)17:00: (3.40) Burnley (3.50) Brighton (2.10)19:30: (2.60) Bournemouth (3.40) Man.Utd. (2.70)Sunday 16:00: (2.35) West Ham (3.50) Fulham (2.95)16:00: (1.22) Liverpool (6.50) Crystal Palace (12.0)18:30: (1.30) Arsenal (5.80) Aston Villa (9.00)Monday 22:00: (1.70) Chelsea (3.70) Everton (5.10)***odds are subject to change***
