As the united and the city set the worst manchester derby ever

How do things take place Manchester United?

Here’s the first sentence of the piece Written by Espn’s Rob Davson Two weeks ago: “Ruben Amorim says he plans to remain Manchester United Manager, but he admitted that he could not guarantee that he would still be in business after the international break.”

It’s still in business – Thank you, perhaps, on a 97-minute penalty Bruno Fernandes To ensure 3-2 win … over Burnley … at Old Trafford. Yes, they are measured that the vibrations that the victory of the last second home over the design of the worst team in the league is considered a potential milestone.

There was amorim Tactical plate becomes meme In the CARABAO CUSTOM LOSS LOSS until the fourth level Grimsbi Town. There was a loss of opening weeks Arsenal The side that never came out of the first speed and barely turned on the ignition. Was 1-1 draws with Fulham thanks Rodrigo Muniz its own goal. There is still zero Premier League Begins for 76.5m euros of signing Benjamin Sesko.

Still, if you look at the Premier League table, you will notice that Manchester United is neither the worst team in their own city. No, they have four points with three matches.

Manchester City? They lost two of three – something that the possible winner of the Prime Minister League only done once in the history of the league.

After almost all last season until the torn ACL, the ruling Ballon D’or Winner Gender returned to MAN city – and he is saying things like this: “I’m not Messi. I won’t come back and just make the team win and win and win.”

When two manchester sides introduced themselves in April, it produced one of the worst games last season: unzerspective draw in which city did not try to shoot in the last 20 minutes and no team has created any dangerous chance. While this week’s match on Etihada should not be as uncompetitive as the one, schedule is Catch the two sides to the lowest collective point from the takeover of Abu Dhabi City in 2008. years.

So in front of what could be the worst manchester derby in recent memory, let’s look at how we reached here and why one side of the city could be closer to turn it around another.

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Short, Recent History of Manchester City and Manchester United

All you need to know is somewhere in this table, which sketches average average per spots and for play and manchester clubs during each 10 monthly stretch since 2008:

We’ll start with the city. Download Abu Dhabi is happening, and the line shoots straight through that Agueroooooooo In 2012. Then things are stated in Roberto Mana Mancini manager before they bounce back under Manuel Pellegrini, and then fall until 2016. years, when Pep Guardiola arrived.

After that? Immediate improvement of levels reached only another other team in the history of the league. During the season, it was wrapped around the height, but then bounced back to three straight titles from 2022. To 2024. Years.

Things remained in the order of a month or two at the beginning of last season, and now alarms in the room are leaving. Although the average 10-month point was lower since 2008. year, it was lower than at any time since the first season of Guardiola.

With United, well, the average average of the 10-month points is lower than at any time since 2008. – and at any time since the beginning of the Prime Minister of League.

At the beginning of our data set, we may be the highlight of Sir Alek Ferguson as a manager. United won the Champions League in 2008. years and then returned it to the finals in 2009. and 2011. years, where they lost, both of Manchester City managers. United has also won in each of those three seasons, but he swollen the title from 2011. year with only 80 points – related to the least point of any winner of the title of this century. It opened the city room to steal in the title of 2012. years only in United Robin Van Persie, he received the last world class season and win another heading in the final season of Sir Alek’s final season.

After that, it is a good example of how progress is not linear. Since 2013. To this day, United Performance per game has passed the victory in the title in the League League-Employed: They win full point less than the game, or about 40 points – 40! – Over the full season.

But there were ascent and falls on the way down. You had an immediate decline under David Moiec, and then quite the same story with the coming four managers, Louis Van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnaro Solskjaer and Erik Ten Hague: a short, immediate improvement, but the ultimate decline.

And that leads us to this day, united under Ruban Amorim. There was no improvement – it was descended from the day.

Why is one Manchester Club closer to turning it around than others

I compared Manchester United in Cowboys Dallas before and yes, now, I’m working again.

Cowboys are the most popular sports franchise in the most popular sport in United States. They are actually impossible to be boring, because if they are boring, they refer to it as if it were a national crisis: Why are Dallas Cowboys so boring? Meanwhile, Indianapolis colts can exist at the same level of mediocre – not so good, not so bad – and no one cares.

See what I’m coming here? The same goes for United, only on the attention of the most popular sports in the world.

It is now a little different here because the mass levels of inequality in soccer are so that the mediocre man is greatly much higher institutional failure than cowboys that conquer half of their games. If Manchester United does not compete for Premier League and Champions League in most years, then something has failed. And yes, that means that things are going awfully wrong than a decade now.

But because of the popularity of cowboys and Manchester United, this means that these teams almost have to exist in the extremes, and that means that public sense or conventional wisdom around these teams is almost always okay. Cowboys are well traded with their best player, Micah Parsons, the sky’s season failed, they disbanded the franchise … and then they almost beaten the Super Bowl Champs, the Orla, on their way to 1. Week.

With Manchester United, we tried to force them in the name called Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Erik Ten Hague after just a few positive results. I know because I’m literally He wrote about it less than two years ago In a piece called “No, Manchester United is not in the premiere name to the title.” I have a lot of angry comments about – and then they lost, 7-0, to Liverpool Just a few weeks later. They finished the eighth season.

However, I think it’s the opposite here too. When Manchester United is bad, it is often not as bad as it seems. Like, potentially, right now.

I’m not suggesting Manchester United now good Or that Ruben Amorim is their Savior. But the biggest question for a man in United has so far this season was nothing more than the type of variance, we expected that even to the rest of the season and for any other club in the world.

Through three matches, they tried 58 shots – 14 more than anyone else in the league – and created the most expected goals:

The only problem is that they all turned it into just four actual goals, which sets them tied to West Ham and Burnley for the eighth best brands in the league.

Although it was kind of funny that Mans was signed by Mans Two Players – Matheus Cunha and Brian Mbeumo – SZO Mass surpassed their XG last season Just to suffer immediately through the final fall, it will not continue. I will not defend the loss of Grimsbi Town, but if the united finishes his chances in that, then we probably never talk about it again.

USA, United is not close to the title challenge – and their A team building access will not help With that, either – but they ended up in the 15th place last season. Even with a finish drop, they are already six spots in the first three matches this season. For a team that scored only 44 goals last season, the attack already looks much better.

In Manchester City, however, the same questions from last season still exists.

The city is allowed 1.2 goals per game last season and 20 contacts within its own criminal space – and significantly larger marks than in any of the previous seven seasons. Every time they turned the ball, it was a fire with five alarms. They passed a bunch of money last summer, but none of that was concerned about their most widespread weakness: the feet of aging and a limited range in the middle of the field.

New arrivals Raian Cherky and Tijjani Reiindrs are plus players in possession but negatives without a ball. Raian Ait-Nouri It’s not a bad counsel, but it’s not like the left of the left last year.

Enough enough, through three matches, the city allowed 1.3 goals per game at 1.3 expected goals allowed by the game. And they recognized 22 touching within their own penalty area. What makes even more in view is that their schedule was not particularly difficult – their opponents ended 8th, 16. and 17. year last season. They seem to have concluded that the rodire will solve all their questions, and the Rodra himself is already suggesting that it is a bad idea.

While Pep Gurdiola manager had solved a lot of tactical problems earlier, we arrive a year since Rodra left last season. It means a year without a guards who realized how to solve this tactical problem.

The city could still refuse and re-enters as a candidate for the name, but Marting Markets and Projection systems They now have their own quotas about the title in a far third place – much closer Chelsea In the fourth of Liverpool and Arsenal up at the top. Just a few weeks ago, it was supposed to be a three-point race.

How about united? Overtime from the sports index projected them at 59 points to start the season. Now that number is up to 60. All that shouting and screaming and almost nothing has changed.