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Too Far To Fail?

October 25, 2021 at 10:27 am Leave a comment

Following the incredible 5-0 trashing of Manchester United by Liverpool on Sunday, Man Utd boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said he has “come too far to give up” despite overseeing United’s biggest defeat to Liverpool since losing 7-1 in 1895.

At this time United were still called “Newton Heath” and played in green and yellow shirts (pic: Wikipedia).

The number of goals scored by Liverpool in Sunday’s 5-0 was outnumbered on this weekend by Chelsea’s 7-0 win over Norwich, a team called the “Canaries” which are sporting the same colours as Newton Heath did back in 1895. But Manchester United’s heavy defeat grabbed almost all the headlines this weekend.

However, there was an other game in which seven goals were scored on the Saturday, too, when Watford with their new manager Claudio Ranieri won 5-2 at Everton. And Manchester City hit four goals in their 4-1 victory at Brighton – a round of many goals that was.

It was Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah who claimed a hat-trick in the win over Manchest United while Naby Keita and Diogo Jota also scored in the Reds’ dominant win. Cristiano Ronaldo couldn’t help, and Paul Pogba who was introduced at half time was red-carded soon after his introduction. Sancho and Lingard were unused subsitutes.

Manchester United now has four games without a win, their next game is against Tottenham away which lost 0-1 to West Ham on Sunday courtesy to a goal by Michail Antonio who on his day is as unplayable as Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah. Only a win over Spurs could help the Red Devils which sit in seventh in the Premier League move up the table.

United’s Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said the loss is his “darkest day” as manager but will carry on. Has he really gone too far to fail, is he still the right man at the helm?

Tough times for everybody at Manchester United …

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