The result leaves United bottom of the Premier League after losing to Brighton last weekend as four goals in the opening 35 minutes helped Brentford to an emphatic victory, the club’s first against United since from 1938.
Josh Dasilva opened the scoring when David de Gea fired his shot wide, and minutes later another United error, this time from former Brentford player Christian Eriksen, who lost possession near his goal, allow Mathias Jensen to score a goal. second
Ben Mee’s header from a corner added to United’s woes, before Bryan Mbeumo finished off a slick counter-attack when he collected Ivan Toney’s pass and slotted past Gea.
United had chances in the second half thanks to Eriksen and a Cristiano Ronaldo header, but any hope of a comeback was out of reach.
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This is the first time since 1992 that United have lost the opening two games of a Premier League campaign, and the challenges continue to come with Liverpool on August 22.
“Brentford were more hungry, one and two, we conceded goals (for) individual mistakes,” Ten Hag told reporters after the game. “You can have a good plan but then put the plan in the trash.”
United struggled to deal with Brentford’s pressure in the first half of Saturday’s game and lost possession in the build-up to the first two goals.
“They (the players) make a bad decision, and that’s football. It’s a game of mistakes and it punishes us,” added Ten Hag.
“It’s naive how we played today. We need to play more direct. We drew them in, the space was high on the pitch… We’ll learn, we’ll have to learn from it. But it’s not good, at this level it’s pretty clear “.
Elsewhere in the Premier League, Manchester City and Arsenal continued their unbeaten starts to the season – City with a 4-0 win against Bournemouth and Arsenal with an entertaining 4-2 win against Leicester City.
Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden scored in the first half for City, while Jefferson Lerma’s own goal completed the rout.
Summer signing Gabriel Jesus scored twice on his Arsenal home debut, first with a superb lob over Leicester goalkeeper Danny Ward and then again with a header from from the back from a corner.
William Saliba’s own goal and James Madison’s effort from a tight angle saw Leicester hit back, either side of Granit Xhaka’s simple finish after Ward had spilled a cross, but Gabriel’s goal Martinelli 15 minutes from time ended Arsenal’s victory.