{"id":1177525,"date":"2022-08-14T11:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/14\/how-woeful-manchester-united-were-dismantled-by-ruthless-brentford\/"},"modified":"2022-08-14T11:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T11:56:34","slug":"how-woeful-manchester-united-were-dismantled-by-ruthless-brentford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/14\/how-woeful-manchester-united-were-dismantled-by-ruthless-brentford\/","title":{"rendered":"How woeful Manchester United were dismantled by ruthless Brentford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"384\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ben-mee-220813-celebrates-g-1050-696x384.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ben-mee-220813-celebrates-g-1050\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Brentford ruthlessly tore through a woeful Manchester United with an emphatic 4-0 victory that means there are already early alarm bells ringing for new Red Devils boss Erik ten Hag.<\/p>\n<p>The Bees produced a high-energy, physical performance that completely overwhelmed the visitors, who fell behind on 10 minutes when Josh Dasilva\u2019s tame shot somehow squirmed through David de Gea.<\/p>\n<p>The United keeper then played an awful pass to former Brentford midfielder, Christian Eriksen, allowing Mathias Jensen to nip in and double the home side\u2019s lead on 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It continued to get worse for United when Ben Mee bundled in a third as the Bees\u2019 superior height at set pieces paid dividends, before a rapid counter-attack saw Bryan Mbeumo race clear and rifle in a fourth inside 35 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag made a triple change at the interval to try and add more physicality to his side and there was a slight improvement, although the damage had clearly been done and they could not reduce the arrears despite creating half chances for Cristiano Ronaldo and Eriksen.<\/p>\n<p>The result leaves United rock bottom and means they start a season with back-to-back defeats for the first time since 1992. Indeed, the Red Devils have now lost four league matches in a row for the first time since 1979 and are also on a seven-match losing streak on the road that is their worst run since 1936.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag will now need to lift his troops ahead of a crunch home clash with rivals Liverpool a week on Monday. Meanwhile, third-placed Brentford visit Fulham next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"_ue8chE7anU\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (12-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_ue8chE7anU?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brentford ruthlessly tore through a woeful Manchester United with an emphatic 4-0 victory that means there are already early alarm bells ringing for new Red Devils boss Erik ten Hag. 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