From the unexpected to the expectant. Erik ten Hag is discovering that managing Manchester United in a run-in is markedly different to managing Ajax.
Since the season resumed after the spring internationals, Ten Hag has miscalculated with alarming regularity and his game-management - his Midas touch for three-quarters of the campaign - has deserted him.
It was not so much who Ten Hag put on at West Ham as who he didn't. Alejandro Garnacho has been training for the best part of a fortnight and was unused while five teammates emerged.