United were embarrassed by Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, defending terribly and failing to create anything of note in the absence of Bruno Fernandes, as a brace from Michael Olise and further goals from Jean-Philippe Mateta and Tyrick Mitchell condemned the Red Devils to their 13th defeat of the season, the most in a campaign in their history.
After the game, Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher claimed United are “the worst coached team in the Premier League”, and reckons the Under-23s would have done better.
“They’re the worst coached team in the Premier League. No Manchester United team should be losing 4-0 to Crystal Palace.
“I get the injury issues, but Manchester United’s under-23s will have been coached, come through the academy and taught how to play.
“I think if Manchester United’s under-23s played against Crystal Palace tonight, they still wouldn’t have lost 4-0 tonight.”
Ten Hag admitted after the game that it was a poor performance, but insisted he will keep fighting.
He said: “It is clear and it is obvious. This is underperforming. We didn’t act how we want to do it and it’s by far not good enough. We are very disappointed, but the fans were always behind us and we keep fighting, like the fans did.