Manchester United haven’t exactly been setting the world on fire during the first portion of the English Premier League season.
That start got even worse overnight as they fell to Derby County in the League Cup.
Yes, you read that right. The English Premier League outfit have fallen from a great height and lost to a side who couldn’t even gain promotion out of the second tier last year.
In fact, they are currently running sixth in the second-level competition, having lost to Rotherham and drawn with Blackburn in two of their last three encounters.
While Derby only got the better of them on penalties in the end, Manchester United still let two goals in and are officially in crisis mode, struggling at both ends of the park.
What made it even worse? They drew with Derby County at Old Trafford.
This is a team with what is understood to be a wage bill nort of 200 million pounds, compared to Derby’s roughly 34.6 million.
Back in the Premier League, United had a disastrous one-all draw with the Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday and, with losses to Brighton and Tottenham Hotspur, already under the belt this season, things don’t look like improving anytime soon.
Having won just three of their six league games United are sitting seventh on the table and while there is a long, long way to go, prospects of a top-six finish are looking grim unless they can turn things around.
Manager Jose Mourinho has already told the squad Paul Pogba will never captain the club again under his watch, with the French World Cup winner likely to be on the way out during the transfer window, while the manager himself told reporters his side hadn’t lost following their 3-0 debacle at the hands of Tottenham.
The Red Devils are officially in free fall and with a road trip to London for a match against West Ham this week, it’s a must-win game to take some pressure off the struggling club.
We can only fear just how Manchester United’s upcoming games are going to go. In the next month, they will face Valencia and Juventus during the Champions League, as well as Chelsea in the Premier League.
It could be a rough stretch ahead for Mourinho, his players and supporters of the formerly fearsome, but now lacking bite red devils.
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