Premier League: Manchester United are at the bottom of the table after being beaten 4-0 by Brentford

Erik ten Hag’s bad start as the Manchester United manager fell into disarray as he was beaten 4-0 by Brentford on Saturday leaving the Red Devils bottom of the Premier League table. The former Ajax manager’s reign began with Brighton’s first win at Old Trafford last weekend, but things got worse when the Bees punished a series of errors to score four times in the first 35 minutes. first. Josh Dasilva’s strike slipped past David de Gea’s control to open the openings before Mathias Jensen charged into United’s attack from behind to make it 2-0 within 18 minutes.

Ben Mee then exposed the visitors’ weakness from match-fixing in his first goal for Brentford and Bryan Mbuemo completed a stunning counter-attack 10 minutes before half-time. to bring United to the bottom of the table for the first time in 30 years.

Jubilee home supporters mocked Ten Hag with exhortations that “you’ll be fired in the morning.”

But the Dutchman inherited madness rather than the root cause as United lost their seventh straight away game for the first time since 1936.

That record includes scoring four goals against Manchester City, Liverpool and Brighton last season.

The arrival of £57m ($69m) centre-back Lisandro Martinez from Ajax has done little to bolster United’s leaky defence, and questions will arise as to why Ten Hag is leaving Raphael Varane on the bench in place of the Argentinian and the disqualified. – kind of like Harry Maguire.

Ten Hag called Cristiano Ronaldo into the starting line-up, but the five-time Ballon d’Or winner played a part in opening the scoring.

Ronaldo came off the field too easily in a foul situation when he was surrounded by Brentford players. Dasilva should still be able to successfully save De Gea, but the ball goes wide of the Spaniard’s post.

De Gea made that mistake eight minutes later with an attempted pass to Christian Eriksen, who was overtaken by his former teammate Jensen, and Dane coldly finished to double the lead for Brentford.

Martinez’s tiny 5ft 9in (1.8m) frame has been raised as a red flag for his physical adaptability in the Premier League.

And the Argentinian was defeated by Mee in the post for the third goal after Ivan Toney headed the corner of the net.

Credit to Brentford for just their second season in the English top flight in 75 years could be swept away in the wave of criticism that is coming to United.

But Thomas Frank’s men made a superb move to tear United’s net again for their fourth goal.

Toney was dropped to the left and picked Mbuemo with an accurate first pass for the Frenchman to run behind Luke Shaw and finish De Gea down.

Ten Hag made his feelings clear at halftime with a three-man substitution with Shaw, Martinez and Fred as scapegoats.

United at least stopped the bleeding after the break and there should have been at least some consolation when Ronaldo headed home before Eriksen’s header lacked the power to beat David Raya.

However, the damage was done to Ten Hag long ago and could be worse.

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United host Liverpool, who beat their historic rivals 5-0 and 4-0 last season, in their next match on 22 August.

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