Crystal Palace Thrash Manchester United 4-0, Piling Pressure on Ten Hag

With a resounding 4-0 victory at Selhurst Park on Monday, Crystal Palace achieved a league double over Manchester United for the first time in club history thanks to two goals from Michael Olise. Erik ten Hag will be under more pressure now.

Palace often exploited a haphazard United defense, which featured Casemiro at center back. Tyrick Mitchell and Jean-Philippe Mateta also scored goals in the thrilling victory.

With 34 points from 35 games, United is still in eighth position, two points behind sixth-place Newcastle United, and their chances of playing in Europe the next season are rapidly dwindling. Palace has 43 points after 36 games, which keeps them in 14th place.

Bruno Fernandes was sidelined for the first time in his 230 games at Old Trafford due to injury, and United was missing a number of players due to other injuries, but the ease with which they were defeated will worry everyone at the club.

But manager Erik Ten Hag thinks he's the best guy to turn around a team that is barely finishing the season.

They have already faced their highest number of shots (618) in a single season and presently hold the club record for most losses (13) in a Premier League season.

They will break the record for most goals conceded in a campaign if they allow three more goals this season.

Ten Hag said to SkySports, "I have prepared the team as best I can, and I will keep fighting." "The performance was inadequate, and I must accept responsibility for it.

However, I'll muster the strength and get them ready for the next match. We need to battle for the nine points we have left to play for.

The management refused to assign Casemiro's subpar defensive performance as the only one to fault.

It is a collective effort; one player cannot take credit for it.

Ten Hag claimed, "We did not adjust to the different situations." We clearly didn't behave in a way that we desired, and it wasn't good enough.

Everyone could tell that we had serious issues with our backline today, so there are always explanations. However, we must ultimately resolve these problems, and we ought to have performed better.

The league leaders Arsenal will host Manchester United at home on Sunday in their next match.

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