Already, the new Erik ten Hag/Ineos project is on the back foot. This 3-0 shellacking by Liverpool could have been far more humiliating – and damaging. Two defeats from three Premier League outings is a dismal way to sign off before the international break, as Ten Hag and company seek to regroup a mere 16 days after the season’s start.
Trying to write this collapse off as a blip is fanciful because on show was a failure in basic competence, from front to back, epitomised by the catastrophes engineered by a hapless Casemiro that led to goals.
