This Manchester United squad is lumbered with a lot of unflattering attributes to lament. Erik ten Hag focused on his team's unpredictability following a dreary home defeat to Bournemouth.
«We are really inconsistent,» the Dutchman moaned. «I think, as a squad, we are not good enough to be consistent and we have to work as a squad to improve that.» Yet, Ten Hag may have been a bit hasty with his criticism. United can always be counted upon in certain circumstances.
Across Ten Hag's entire Manchester United's tenure, his side have invariably failed to defeat any of the Premier League's current top nine clubs away from home. In fact, United reliably implode on their travels against any side vaguely circling the division's elite.
Date
Result
27/12/21
Newcastle 1-1 Man Utd
15/01/22
Aston Villa 2-2 Man Utd
06/03/22
Man City 4-1 Man Utd
19/04/22
Liverpool 4-0 Man Utd
23/04/22
Arsenal 3-1 Man Utd
07/05/22
Brighton 4-0 Man Utd
02/10/22
Man City 6-3 Man Utd
06/11/22
Aston Villa 3-1 Man Utd
22/01/23
Arsenal 3-2 Man Utd
05/03/23
Liverpool 7-0 Man Utd
02/04/23
Newcastle 2-0 Man Utd
27/04/23
Tottenham 2-2 Man Utd
04/05/23
Brighton 1-0 Man Utd
07/05/23
West Ham 1-0 Man Utd
19/08/23
Tottenham 2-0 Man Utd
03/09/23
Arsenal 3-1 Man Utd
02/12/23
Newcastle 1-0 Man Utd
Just before this bleak winless sequence began, Manchester United set a new Football League record of 29 consecutive away matches without defeat. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, improbably, was at the helm for that feat — which must have an asterisk next to it given how many games were played in empty stadiums — but his successors have found away trips far trickier.
Solskjaer specialised in big-ticket away days chiefly because he unashamedly set his side up to counterattack. United claimed three consecutive victories at
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