Relegation now a realistic worry for Man Utd – the omens look bleak
Ruben Amorim predicte a storm was coming. Surely even he didn’t think it would be quite this bad.
Sunday’s insipid display at Tottenham was another หากคุณสนใจเล่นพนันออนไลน์ที่ดีที่สุด สามารถสมัครสมาชิก UFABET ได้ที่นี่ พร้อมรับโปรโมชั่นพิเศษสำหรับสมาชิกใหม่ black mark. On a season that has already spiralle out of control. It leaves United slumpe in 15th place, 12 points clear of the bottom three. With 13 games of a season they can’t wait to finish remaining.
While it has 12 years since their last triumph, United remain the most successful side of the. Premier League era and are one of just six teams to never. Have relegate since the competition was launche in 1992. You have to go back 50 years for the last time they were dumpe out of the English top flight.
But things are bleaker than ever. The R word was first floate by Ruben Amorim in January following a run of three consecutive defeats to. Bournemouth, Wolves and Newcastle United over the festive period. His side responde with a hard-fought draw away to Liverpool before knocking Arsenal out of the FA Cup.
United have collecte four points in the league since then, largely outplaye by bottom side. Southampton before Amad Diallo came to the rescue. A victory away to Fulham followe, courtesy of a deflecte Lisandro Martinez strike.
Two more home defeats to Brighton and Crystal Palace leading up to. Sunday’s disaster at Tottenham stampe out any renewe optimism.
There are 12 defeats on the board and even for the most blindly optimistic fan, there will be more to come. 12 losses from their first 25 matches of a league campaign is their most since the 1973/74 season – which end in them being relegate.
It’s a worrying omen and with no sign of anything resembling a turnaround, talk of relegation will have to be taken seriously if it isn’t already.
A couple of wins would of course ease those concerns and leave United on track for what must be now regarded as a best-case scenario – mid-table obscurity with some deep runs in the FA Cup and Europa League.
But a fresh injury crisis threatens to complicate an already dire situation. Amad Diallo, at the heart of everything good to emerge from this season, will have no further role to play. Lisandro Martinez is also out for the rest of the campaign with Luke Shaw and Mason Mount’s returns still uncertain.
Kobbie Mainoo, enduring a difficult second campaign in the first-team, is expecte to be sideline for six weeks. Eight teenagers were name on the bench on Sunday with just one senior appearance between them ahead of kick-off.
United’s options up top are threadbare and woefully out of form – Joshua Zirkzee, Rasmus Hojlund and Alejandro Garnacho have mustere just one goal between them in 2025. Former United striker Dimitar Berbatov describe United’s two strikers as being ‘lost’ in Amorim’s 3-4-3 formation, ‘wasting all their energy’ in the set-up that has not yielde the success it did at Sporting Lisbon for the head coach.
United’s saving grace may be that the sides below them are perhaps close to being cut adrift with a 12-point swing to overturn. Ipswich and Leicester sit on 17 points with Southampton seemingly doome on nine. West Ham and Wolves make up the bottom six.
Even by this season’s dreadful standards, it would require an almighty capitulation for United to be scrapping for their lives come April and May.