Last season, Manchester United fans were disappointed with both team‘s display and form, but at least an FA cup trophy was there to ease the pain. Transfer dealings over August gave the fans some hope, but after two defeats in three games, including a 3-0 humiliation at Old Trafford from old foe Liverpool gave the fans headache again, and it‘s only the begining of the season. Former United‘s players, who are now working as TV pundits were also full of criticism. Among them was former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. Ten Hag vs the press: ‘I am sorry for you’The Dane was sat next to his former boss Sir Alex Ferguson, for whom he won 13 trophies and explained how hard it was to be next to him during the 3-0 defeat on Sunday.“I was sat with Sir Alex, it was really sad. What he did for this football club. Everything that we enjoyed. The great times. Everything. To sit with him and he is watching this. That, for me, is really, really sad that he is watching that. He did something really extraordinary with this football club. All of that is not there anymore” he said to Premier League productions. Salah keeps on torturing the Red Devils with Diaz shining and Casemiro weighing Man United downSchmeichel also spoke with Optus Sport and explained when it all went wrong for his former club. “It’s probably one of the most disappointing things is we had these opportunities, Ten Hag come in, he’s allowed to spend a lot of money, he’s bringing Casemiro and Antony which changes the whole structure of the club. I think part of the reason the sale happened was because they had to finance those two players. From that moment on the club changed and then you have someone new come and they had chances to make those changes, those really big statements saying these are our standards and we will not tolerate any less than this” he explained. The biggest-ever Premier League deadline-day transfer bombsAnd to make things worse, the United fans had to witness the tactical domination of a Dutchman, but the other one – Arne Slot. He used the post-match interview to reveal how easy it is to read Erik ten Hag‘s tactics.“Last season, they were man marking on the midfield, and they had a press with the seven and 11 (the wingers). So with the striker, and one of the wingers jumped with him…Their style is also – this is maybe last season, I don’t remember that well – but their full-backs, nine out of ten times, are really high, and then Casemiro comes in between. So, if you pick up the ball and you can keep Diaz and Mo Salah high, then you’re constantly in a one-on-one situation. Then you need midfielders that can run, and we had three of them that kept running, and if they arrive in a duel, they are aggressive enough to win it. So that was, I think, one of the main reasons why we could win today“ he explained to Sky Sports.##NAJAVA_MECA_8310763##
