Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag will likely be beneath ‘insufferable’ stress if his aspect lose to Chelsea, says Gary Neville | Soccer Information

Gary Neville says the stress on Erik ten Hag will grow to be “unbearable” if Manchester United lose to Chelsea subsequent Sunday. 

United had been overwhelmed 2-1 at West Ham after conceding a controversial late penalty however had missed a number of possibilities within the first half.

The end result noticed the Hammers transfer above United on objectives scored, leaving Ten Hag’s aspect in 14th place within the Premier League after 9 matches.

It is their second-worst begin to a Premier League season when it comes to factors complete and much from the beginning the membership’s homeowners would have envisaged after ultimately backing Ten Hag after the FA Cup win final season and spending over £200m within the switch window.

“I always think that anybody that’s half-decent, that can play, will beat this United team,” stated the Sky Sports activities pundit on The Gary Neville Podcast. “I simply assume anyone that is half-decent, that places their shoulders up and has the standard, which Chelsea have gotten in components of the pitch, and Man Utd are at risk.

“I do not assume there might be one other defeat subsequent Sunday at Previous Trafford. I genuinely do not.

“I feel it is attending to that time now the place there’s a actual fear. I am anxious as a result of the outcomes, the shortage of objectives, the shortage of performances, it is stacking up week after week after week, and there will likely be some form of causes given [on Sunday] – I am not going to say excuses – however causes given round lacking possibilities. However they preserve lacking possibilities. These are the gamers which were recruited over the past couple of seasons primarily.

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“It’s a sobering time because the feeling was after winning the FA Cup final and investing well, having a more smooth transfer window, that now it’s looking like here we are again at that moment where it’s going badly wrong.

“It is attending to that time the place it will grow to be insufferable, the stress on this subsequent week or two round Erik ten Hag.

“Just purely the position in the league, they are 14th. Manchester United… I mean, it’s Manchester United. He can’t be 14th in the league. He can be after one or two games, maybe, but not after nine, not after 10.”

On the controversial penalty award, which noticed referee David Coote despatched to the pitchside monitor by VAR Michael Oliver earlier than ultimately overruling his real-time choice to not award a spot-kick for Matthijs De Ligt’s collision with Danny Ings, Neville stated: “Every team gets a bad decision but that one wasn’t right for a couple of reasons.

“De Ligt comes out, it is not like a free ball with Danny Ings, it is bobbling within the field they usually each form of go for it and it is like a knee from De Ligt that simply makes contact with Ings, and it is nothing actually.

“The referee doesn’t give a penalty on the pitch, David Coote, and then we’re watching it and he gets called over to the screen by Michael Oliver on VAR.

“However the attention-grabbing factor for me was when David Coote went over, he should have watched it eight instances, and I am screaming on the tv. I feel he would not assume it is a penalty, he isn’t having this, however he turns round and he overturns his unique choice and it wasn’t proper.

“I think the pressure maybe of being sent over to the screen by Michael Oliver, a dominant referee… No one likes to upset their superiors. You think of it when you’re a young player in the dressing room and you have a senior player in the dressing room, or if you’re young in the office and someone senior in the office makes a call you don’t really want to tell them that they’re wrong.

“I feel it was a little bit of that as a result of I am unsure David Coote was anyplace close to considering that that was a penalty. And it was an enormous shock, and ultimately Jarrod Bowen steps up, takes the penalty, it is emphatic, and United lose the sport.”

What did Ten Hag say about Coote and Oliver?

Erik ten Hag: “I do not criticise any personnel however I criticise the method. Off-field was Michael Oliver [VAR], on-field you must decide within the closing second. He did I feel three minutes to determine to make this name. You must present massive character to re-call this choice an skilled VAR has made.”