With his back firmly against the wall, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer knew he had to change something going into Saturday’s crunch clash with Tottenham.
He knew speculation over his position had increased, making it somewhat ironic that it was his opposite number who was relieved of his duties in the days following.
Heading into Saturday’s timely 3-0 victory, it was above all else the defence that was the team’s most obvious frailty. The same was brutally exposed by Liverpool, though the writing had been on the wall for a number of weeks prior.
In the eight league matches before Saturday’s win, no side had accumulated a higher Expected Goals Against (xGA) total across the whole Premier League than United’s of 14.58.
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