Dominant win over Leicester lifts mood after Ten Hag’s sacking but tougher tests await next permanent manager
Maybe there was something in Erik ten Hag’s claim that Manchester United were not receiving any luck in the final weeks as his tenure came to a stumbling end. Where, it was absent to prevent against Leicester, while the woodwork and deflections were working in their favour. Fortune favoured United on Wednesday but the team is in flux and requires clarity on what comes next.
It would be generous to say anyone inside Old Trafford arrived with optimism because the malaise has lasted for far too long but the prospect of something better is in the air once more. The idea of a young coach coming in to reverse years of failings is promising but false dawns have been United’s stock in trade since Sir Alex Ferguson retired in 2013.
Casemiro thrashed one in off the bar from 30 yards, Alejandro Garnacho netted after Diogo Dalot was given the benefit of the doubt by the assistant referee when arguably offside, Bruno Fernandes’s free-kick wrong-footed Danny Ward after James Justin’s header, Casemiro pounced after his original header hit both posts and came back to him, while Fernandes’s fifth came when he latched on to a woeful Leicester back-pass. Ten Hag had been waiting for that level of luck.
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