The inquest into Manchester United's poor start to the season is continuing following their abject Carabao Cup exit on Wednesday night.
United threw away a two-goal lead inside the opening 10 minutes to lose 3-2 to Brighton and Hove Albion at Old Trafford.
That loss compounded a tumultuous few days for the club on-and-off the pitch after losing the Manchester derby against 10-man Manchester City and seeing 15-year-old wonderkid JJ Gabriel wanting to leave.
United will look to allay some of their issues on Sunday afternoon when they travel to Fulham in the Premier League.
However, if they are to emerge from Craven Cottage with a win, head coach Michael Carrick will demand more from his side in a multitude of ways.
After four matches, Carrick's side sit 13th in the table on four points - already eight adrift of Arsenal and Manchester City who sit first and second.
Stats have emerged across from those four matches which will make for some worrying reading too for everyone associated with United.
In terms of running stats, their highest rank for a metric is 14th out of the 20 Premier League teams and that is distance covered. They've run 449.1km as a collective - although defenders of that stat will highlight that United have had more of the ball than opponents so in theory less running has been needed.
Even so the other stats aren't as defensible.
They rank 18th in sprints (379) and the same position for sprints per km covered (0.84km).
United's critics have accused them of a lack of intensity and they will fairly point to their high speed runs where they are 19th having made 1,364 so far. Furthermore they are 19th in high speed runs per km too at 3.04.
Many United fans on social media are pointing to club legend Rio Ferdinand's interview with summer signing Youri Tielemans as a worrying indicator.
During an appearance on Rio Meets during pre-season, Tielemans was asked about what training had been like under Michael Carrick.
'Was it hard sessions this morning. Sharp? Not loads of running?' Ferdinand asked.
'Yeah, just sharp. That's what it's been like. No, not a lot of running,' replied Tielemans. 'When you come back from the World Cup, you just chill.'
To which a shocked Ferdinand replied: 'What?'.
If United fail to emerge from west London with three points on Sunday, then Carrick and his players will face a lengthy inquest going into the international break before hosting Tottenham in the Premier League on October 10.
MhiztaB
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that fitness is the actual problem, tell me why Man U can't press like other teams. always playing like people in their 80's. look at that goal Halland score, if it was a Man U player they would have given up on the ball. like zero Tenacity.
Cidaceltu
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Manchester United Fitness Coaches (Transfermarkt): Michael Clegg >> hired 6/7/2019 on the back of being the son of Mick Clegg who worked at united from 2000 to 2011 Charlie Owen >> hired 1/7/2019 was a personal trainer before getting the job of a fitness coach of Manchester United u18 in 2018 for a year then got promoted to the first team without any prior top level football coaching at all These 2 incompetent people along with all the fitness staff below them are the sole responsible for the downfall and sack of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Erik Ten Hag, And now Michael Carrick This team has never looked fit since 2019 set of players after set of players head coach after head coach check out the team that lost 1-4 to Watford and got Ole sacked “A football fitness coach helps players build the speed, strength, and endurance needed to last 90 minutes on the pitch. They move beyond generic gym workouts to focus on football-specific movements like explosive acceleration, quick changes of direction, and injury prevention” Google It If you all remember players were complaining under Ten Hag that he made them run a lot in trainings now Carrick is the opposite they were never fit under Ten Hag more of tired all the time play one game good, lose the one after and now they don’t even have the energy to complete 90 mins Ruben Amorim brought his own fitness coach Paulo Barreira which probably shaked things a little and although they were in there fittest period during this time they were still not fit enough The difference between Luis Enrique and Vincent Kompany aside from the tactical aptitude is the fitness coaches Enrique poached from Spain that made his PSG team looks the fittest and able to press with more intensity over the 90 mins It’s not just what difference do fitness coaches really make when the manager isn’t good enough but they are what differ between a team and the other in regards of the physical output of the team and help the manager a whole awful lot to implement his ideas, his assistant coaches (which before Ineos we weren’t even letting managers pick their owns) train the team on grass running, off and on the ball but before them there come the fitness coaches getting the team even ready to train in high intensity let alone being able to play a game in high intensity All players that left talked about the intensity of trainings every where else but United and the reason is the players are barely even fit to train Michael Carrick said he likes to delegate stuff and doesn’t interfere a lot with nutritionists, fitness coaches etc. and that is his DOWNFALL Ineos took charge and fired everybody deservedly or not, including Gary O'Driscoll the head of medical on the back of the injury catastrophe in the 2023/2024 season that had players even questioning this doctor’s methods, Ineos went to overhaul the medical department, scouting department, data science department every department even the canteen people except the fitness department Apart from hiring Sam Erith (Performance Manager) (the monitoring stuff) they still thought these incompetent John Murtough’s hires are good enough WHY?! THIS IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM The players were shit before 2019, it was chaotic sometimes they wanted to play for the manager sometimes they didn’t, but they never looked “LAZY” This is not LAZINESS it’s POOR FITNESS INEOS WAKE UP BEFORE YOU SACK ANOTHER MANAGER
Cidaceltu
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Manchester United Fitness Coaches: Michael Clegg >> hired 6/7/2019 on the back of being the son of Mick Clegg who worked at united from 2000 to 2011 Charlie Owen >> hired 1/7/2019 was a personal trainer before getting the job of a fitness coach of Manchester United u18 in 2018 for a year then got promoted to the first team without any prior top level football coaching at all These 2 incompetent people along with all the fitness staff below them are the sole responsible for the downfall and sack of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Erik Ten Hag, And now Michael Carrick This team has never looked fit since 2019 set of players after set of players head coach after head coach check out the team that lost 1-4 to Watford and got Ole sacked “A football fitness coach helps players build the speed, strength, and endurance needed to last 90 minutes on the pitch. They move beyond generic gym workouts to focus on football-specific movements like explosive acceleration, quick changes of direction, and injury prevention” Google It If you all remember players were complaining under Ten Hag that he made them run a lot in trainings now Carrick is the opposite they were never fit under Ten Hag more of tired all the time play one game good, lose the one after and now they don’t even have the energy to complete 90 mins Ruben Amorim brought his own fitness coach Paulo Barreira which probably shaked things a little and although they were in there fittest period during this time they were still not fit enough The difference between Luis Enrique and Vincent Kompany aside from the tactical aptitude is the fitness coaches Enrique poached from Spain that made his PSG team looks the fittest and able to press with more intensity over the 90 mins It’s not just what difference do fitness coaches really make when the manager isn’t good enough but they are what differ between a team and the other in regards of the physical output of the team and help the manager a whole awful lot to implement his ideas, his assistant coaches (which before Ineos we weren’t even letting managers pick their owns) train the team on grass running, off and on the ball but before them there come the fitness coaches getting the team even ready to train in high intensity let alone being able to play a game in high intensity All players that left talked about the intensity of trainings every where else but United and the reason is the players are barely even fit to train Michael Carrick said he likes to delegate stuff and doesn’t interfere a lot with nutritionists, fitness coaches etc. and that is his DOWNFALL Ineos took charge and fired everybody deservedly or not, including Gary O'Driscoll the head of medical on the back of the injury catastrophe in the 2023/2024 season that had players even questioning this doctor’s methods, Ineos went to overhaul the medical department, scouting department, data science department every department even the canteen people except the fitness department Apart from hiring Sam Erith (Performance Manager) (the monitoring stuff) they still thought these incompetent John Murtough’s hires are good enough WHY?! THIS IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM The players were shit before 2019, it was chaotic sometimes they wanted to play for the manager sometimes they didn’t, but they never looked “LAZY” This is not LAZINESS it’s POOR FITNESS INEOS WAKE UP BEFORE YOU SACK ANOTHER MANAGERR
Cidaceltu
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Manchester United Fitness Coaches: Michael Clegg >> hired 6/7/2019 on the back of being the son of Mick Clegg who worked at united from 2000 to 2011 Charlie Owen >> hired 1/7/2019 was a personal trainer before getting the job of a fitness coach of Manchester United u18 in 2018 for a year then got promoted to the first team without any prior top level football coaching at all These 2 incompetent people along with all the fitness staff below them are the sole responsible for the downfall and sack of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Erik Ten Hag, And now Michael Carrick This team has never looked fit since 2019 set of players after set of players head coach after head coach check out the team that lost 1-4 to Watford and got Ole sacked “A football fitness coach helps players build the speed, strength, and endurance needed to last 90 minutes on the pitch. They move beyond generic gym workouts to focus on football-specific movements like explosive acceleration, quick changes of direction, and injury prevention” Google It If you all remember players were complaining under Ten Hag that he made them run a lot in trainings now Carrick is the opposite they were never fit under Ten Hag more of tired all the time play one game good, lose the one after and now they don’t even have the energy to complete 90 mins Ruben Amorim brought his own fitness coach Paulo Barreira which probably shaked things a little and although they were in there fittest period during this time they were still not fit enough The difference between Luis Enrique and Vincent Kompany aside from the tactical aptitude is the fitness coaches Enrique poached from Spain that made his PSG team looks the fittest and able to press with more intensity over the 90 mins It’s not just what difference do fitness coaches really make when the manager isn’t good enough but they are what differ between a team and the other in regards of the physical output of the team and help the manager a whole awful lot to implement his ideas, his assistant coaches (which before Ineos we weren’t even letting managers pick their owns) train the team on grass running, off and on the ball but before them there come the fitness coaches getting the team even ready to train in high intensity let alone being able to play a game in high intensity All players that left talked about the intensity of trainings every where else but United and the reason is the players are barely even fit to train Michael Carrick said he likes to delegate stuff and doesn’t interfere a lot with nutritionists, fitness coaches etc. and that is his DOWNFALL Ineos took charge and fired everybody deservedly or not, including Gary O'Driscoll the head of medical on the back of the injury catastrophe in the 2023/2024 season that had players even questioning this doctor’s methods, Ineos went to overhaul the medical department, scouting department, data science department every department even the canteen people except the fitness department Apart from hiring Sam Erith (Performance Manager) (the monitoring stuff) they still thought these incompetent John Murtough’s hires are good enough WHY?! THIS IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM The players were shit before 2019, it was chaotic sometimes they wanted to play for the manager sometimes they didn’t, but they never looked “LAZY” This is not LAZINESS it’s POOR FITNESS INEOS WAKE UP BEFORE YOU SACK ANOTHER MANAGER
Cidaceltu
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Manchester United Fitness Coaches: Michael Clegg >> hired 6/7/2019 on the back of being the son of Mick Clegg who worked at united from 2000 to 2011 Charlie Owen >> hired 1/7/2019 was a personal trainer before getting the job of a fitness coach of Manchester United u18 in 2018 for a year then got promoted to the first team without any prior top level football coaching at all These 2 incompetent people along with all the fitness staff below them are the sole responsible for the downfall and sack of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Erik Ten Hag, And now Michael Carrick This team has never looked fit since 2019 set of players after set of players head coach after head coach check out the team that lost 1-4 to Watford and got Ole sacked “A football fitness coach helps players build the speed, strength, and endurance needed to last 90 minutes on the pitch. They move beyond generic gym workouts to focus on football-specific movements like explosive acceleration, quick changes of direction, and injury prevention” Google It If you all remember players were complaining under Ten Hag that he made them run a lot in trainings now Carrick is the opposite they were never fit under Ten Hag more of tired all the time play one game good, lose the one after and now they don’t even have the energy to complete 90 mins Ruben Amorim brought his own fitness coach Paulo Barreira which probably shaked things a little and although they were in there fittest period during this time they were still not fit enough The difference between Luis Enrique and Vincent Kompany aside from the tactical aptitude is the fitness coaches Enrique poached from Spain that made his PSG team looks the fittest and able to press with more intensity over the 90 mins It’s not just what difference do fitness coaches really make when the manager isn’t good enough but they are what differ between a team and the other in regards of the physical output of the team and help the manager a whole awful lot to implement his ideas, his assistant coaches (which before Ineos we weren’t even letting managers pick their owns) train the team on grass running, off and on the ball but before them there come the fitness coaches getting the team even ready to train in high intensity let alone being able to play a game in high intensity All players that left talked about the intensity of trainings every where else but United and the reason is the players are barely even fit to train Michael Carrick said he likes to delegate stuff and doesn’t interfere a lot with nutritionists, fitness coaches etc. and that is his DOWNFALL Ineos took charge and fired everybody deservedly or not, including Gary O'Driscoll the head of medical on the back of the injury catastrophe in the 2023/2024 season that had players even questioning this doctor’s methods, Ineos went to overhaul the medical department, scouting department, data science department every department even the canteen people except the fitness department Apart from hiring Sam Erith (Performance Manager) (the monitoring stuff) they still thought these incompetent John Murtough’s hires are good enough WHY?! THIS IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM The players were shit before 2019, it was chaotic sometimes they wanted to play for the manager sometimes they didn’t, but they never looked “LAZY” This is not LAZINESS it’s POOR FITNESS INEOS WAKE UP BEFORE YOU SACK ANOTHER MANAGER
Cidaceltu
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Manchester United Fitness Coaches: Michael Clegg >> hired 6/7/2019 on the back of being the son of Mick Clegg who worked at united from 2000 to 2011 Charlie Owen >> hired 1/7/2019 was a personal trainer before getting the job of a fitness coach of Manchester United u18 in 2018 for a year then got promoted to the first team without any prior top level football coaching at all These 2 incompetent people along with all the fitness staff below them are the sole responsible for the downfall and sack of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Erik Ten Hag, And now Michael Carrick This team has never looked fit since 2019 set of players after set of players head coach after head coach check out the team that lost 1-4 to Watford and got Ole sacked “A football fitness coach helps players build the speed, strength, and endurance needed to last 90 minutes on the pitch. They move beyond generic gym workouts to focus on football-specific movements like explosive acceleration, quick changes of direction, and injury prevention” Google It If you all remember players were complaining under Ten Hag that he made them run a lot in trainings now Carrick is the opposite they were never fit under Ten Hag more of tired all the time play one game good, lose the one after and now they don’t even have the energy to complete 90 mins Ruben Amorim brought his own fitness coach Paulo Barreira which probably shaked things a little and although they were in there fittest period during this time they were still not fit enough The difference between Luis Enrique and Vincent Kompany aside from the tactical aptitude is the fitness coaches Enrique poached from Spain that made his PSG team looks the fittest and able to press with more intensity over the 90 mins It’s not just what difference do fitness coaches really make when the manager isn’t good enough but they are what differ between a team and the other in regards of the physical output of the team and help the manager a whole awful lot to implement his ideas, his assistant coaches (which before Ineos we weren’t even letting managers pick their owns) train the team on grass running, off and on the ball but before them there come the fitness coaches getting the team even ready to train in high intensity let alone being able to play a game in high intensity All players that left talked about the intensity of trainings every where else but United and the reason is the players are barely even fit to train Michael Carrick said he likes to delegate stuff and doesn’t interfere a lot with nutritionists, fitness coaches etc. and that is his DOWNFALL Ineos took charge and fired everybody deservedly or not, including Gary O'Driscoll the head of medical on the back of the injury catastrophe in the 2023/2024 season that had players even questioning this doctor’s methods, Ineos went to overhaul the medical department, scouting department, data science department every department even the canteen people except the fitness department Apart from hiring Sam Erith (Performance Manager) (the monitoring stuff) they still thought these incompetent John Murtough’s hires are good enough WHY?! THIS IS THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM The players were shit before 2019, it was chaotic sometimes they wanted to play for the manager sometimes they didn’t, but they never looked “LAZY” This is not LAZINESS it’s POOR FITNESS INEOS WAKE UP BEFORE YOU SACK ANOTHER MANAGER
dauabkoy
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man u lacks speed and accuracy players are very lazy chasing the ball and they don't know how to seek goals in tricky ways.
ricbdelm
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its pains to give way games like that ,let carrick be given chance to continue leading /coaching united it's truely too early to have negative thought's about him,I believe he will be the best manager & will among the top four this season
Boyabdep
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But I thought Man utd fans said Carrick is the best to take them forward after going about 14 matches unbeaten late last season
You are correct bro ! .They kissed the ground he walk on. Now they hate him.
Bucblmntu
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racbcipt
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please leave carrick alone the problem is with the board they don't want to buy good players but busy for cheap ones this is the results
remaceopry
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Man United will only get better if they knocked out of all the cup competitions an start playing league games only .
IT'S WHAT I'M SAYING..THEY CAN ONLY PERFORM WELL,, WHEN PLAYING 1 GAME IN A MONTH
Kooadopuy
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brunoo please wake very hard
Duoaeimnru
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he should bench Bruno use him as scapegoat
nupkmorstu
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the Manchester united stupid board what do they expected carrick to deliver when they they do not bought the actual players the team needed. joint management sometimes is very bad.how many players have they scouted but could not meet the demand to buy those players a lot of them. instead they went and bought garbage and now u except a good results to hell with the management if you know what good for you now do not pile any pressure on the coach infact he wanted to win more than u do .all u need to take care off when transfer window open u guys try to replace casemero's gap please do that for us.
Uazii
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Man United will only get better if they knocked out of all the cup competitions an start playing league games only .
kg-4991
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I thought man united players are only trash but here the fans are more trash than the players[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
At least Man United fans doesn't hole up inside a burrow when things go wrong. We were here when our team ruled. We're here when we are at our worst.
obrigado900
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But I thought Man utd fans said Carrick is the best to take them forward after going about 14 matches unbeaten late last season
Yoyemntu
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Hello
سردارایوب۔اکاخیل
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hire zedan
سردارایوب۔اکاخیل
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Sacked him as soon as
Tomckmtyz
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I thought man united players are only trash but here the fans are more trash than the players[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
I swear guy
Dante708
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I am not gonna lie, it's painful to see Man United lose games in such way. But I am also happy to see we are losing at the start of the season. Carrick needs a reality check and he is getting exactly that. United gonna finish in top 4 again this time. Mark my words. Not gonna be pretty though.. . In his 3rd full season United gonna start winning and playing like a leading teams of the present.
I thought man united players are only trash but here the fans are more trash than the players[Crylaugh][Crylaugh][Crylaugh]
Lawcdeil
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I am not gonna lie, it's painful to see Man United lose games in such way. But I am also happy to see we are losing at the start of the season. Carrick needs a reality check and he is getting exactly that. United gonna finish in top 4 again this time. Mark my words. Not gonna be pretty though.. . In his 3rd full season United gonna start winning and playing like a leading teams of the present.
I applaud your positivety
niu4you08
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United are playing with 6 player almost every match the rest are useless .
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Dalot is useless too
vasaclot
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the devil is working hard on them , the glazers!!!
AFereeft9672
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Soon he will wear that number 16 shirt and play for United and give Rashford become captain
AFereeft9672
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United are playing with 6 player almost every match the rest are useless .
AFereeft9672
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Player must be sold asap . All are useless
akshayyy
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lovely
AFereeft9672
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Nothing to worry at most hot SACK and another new face will entry again and same old story .
BLKBtl
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Fulham will pile more misery on them
Heikal_Mahsir
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Just chill. Haha
kg-4991
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I am not gonna lie, it's painful to see Man United lose games in such way. But I am also happy to see we are losing at the start of the season. Carrick needs a reality check and he is getting exactly that. United gonna finish in top 4 again this time. Mark my words. Not gonna be pretty though.. . In his 3rd full season United gonna start winning and playing like a leading teams of the present.
Lawcdeil
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Stat's are like Polls, nobody really takes any notice. Regardless of who one supports fan are only concerned with their team winning and how bad they lose. And my team lose "BAD" They're lose so bad that they're really good at losing. They're good at being 2nd &3RD rate and they're very good at scripted post match excuses! that have been used since the Great man himself "Fergie" retired. "No statistics needed when your winning!"
Deaakoyz
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comfort
Bibabdikpz
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Bibabdikpz
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