Manchester United’s 4-3 defeat to Chelsea on Thursday night time prolonged a chaotic defensive season which has seen them hand over probably the most pictures within the Premier League because the flip of the 12 months.
Right here, the PA information company appears to be like at United’s file.
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Having gone 3-2 up by Alejandro Garnacho within the 67th minute, United allowed Chelsea to have the ultimate 10 pictures of Thursday’s madcap sport and paid the value as Cole Palmer scored within the tenth and eleventh minutes of stoppage time to finish his hat-trick and win the sport.
That took Chelsea’s complete makes an attempt for the match to twenty-eight and meant Erik ten Hag’s aspect have confronted 224 Premier League pictures in 2024 – eight greater than another membership.
Brentford (216), Sheffield United (206), West Ham (205) and Luton (201) are the one different groups to face over 200 in that point, with solely the Hammers of that quartet at the moment outdoors the league’s backside six.
Over the entire season United have confronted 525 pictures, third most within the prime flight behind the rock-bottom Blades on 554 and 18th-placed Luton on 531.
The chaos at Chelsea adopted Saturday’s dramatic end towards Brentford, when Mason Mount gave United a 96th-minute lead however they remarkably conceded an equaliser to Kristoffer Ajer three minutes later.
Redemption for Onana
Andre Onana confronted criticism early within the season after a succession of errors – however United’s defensive file within the context of the pictures they’ve confronted paints the Cameroon goalkeeper’s contributions in a constructive mild.
Having changed the long-serving David De Gea in the summertime, Onana is ever-present for United this season aside from January’s 4-2 FA Cup win over Newport, when he was on the Africa Cup of Nations and Altay Bayindir deputised.
Solely Luton’s Thomas Kaminski has made extra saves on this season’s Premier League, 118 to 114, whereas Onana’s eight clear sheets rank joint second behind Arsenal keeper David Raya’s 11.
United have conceded 44 league targets and, whereas that provides them a damaging aim distinction having scored simply 43, solely 4 groups have conceded fewer – title-chasing trio Liverpool (28), Arsenal (24) and Manchester Metropolis (29) and Everton (42).
That may be a important enchancment on a Champions League marketing campaign that noticed United end backside of their group, Onana conceding 4 targets to Bayern Munich in September and FC Copenhagen in November and three in every assembly with Galatasaray.
