Why Manchester United does not need an overhaul

Man Utd interim manager Ralf Rangnick has stated that the club doesn’t need an overhaul even though they could be ending this season without any trophy for the fifth year.

The Red Devils were last weekend kicked out of the FA Cup tournament by Middleborough; they also don’t stand a chance of winning the EPL title this season.

Although they are still in the Uefa Champions League, the Red Devils are in for a tough challenge in their next match against the Spanish side Atletico, Madrid, which could see them get kicked out from the tournament as well.

“I don’t know. I don’t think so,” Rangnick said when asked if an overhaul would be required. “Because, overall, the development of the team and our performances in the last couple of weeks have improved. Including, by the way, the cup game.

“There are two points of criticism that the team has to face and we all have to face. Number one: we wasted too many clear-cut chances, 22 shots from inside the box, 10 of them were massive opportunities and we should easily have been 3-0 up at half-time. It should have been 6-1 or 6-2. This was one point of criticism that we have to face.

“And the other one was the 10 seconds before we conceded the handball goal. It was a perfect counter-pressing situation on the sideline in the middle of their half, we took away time, the only thing we forgot was taking the ball away from them and this led to a situation where eight seconds later we were outnumbered in our own box and allowed them to score that handball goal.

“Although it was a handball goal and I’m still convinced this goal should have been disallowed, we shouldn’t have allowed this situation to happen in our box.

“Those are the two things I have to fault with the team. We invested a whole week into the gameplan and possession of the ball and very many of those things have been confirmed by the team and were shown on the pitch against Middlesbrough.”