Five reasons why Man Utd will win the Premier League …

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Liverpool will probably win the title, the miserable brilliant idiots that they are. But it may not. Jurgen Klopp’s team is not the target for number 20 as it was for 19, which could see United take 21.

Here are five reasons the title is climbing back up the M62 …

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is a tactical genius after all
Marcelo Bielsa, the coach so idolized by people like Pep Guardiola and Mauricio Pochettino, was brought to school by Solskjaer on Sunday. So by the wisdom of playing field logic, the wisest of all logics, the Manchester United manager now wears the crown of the world’s most tactically innovative and courageous manager.

Okay, so Bielsa and Leeds did stop at Old Trafford and drop their pants, but demolition work 6-2 for United highlighted how anyone willing to take on Solskjaer’s Plan A is embarking on a fool’s errand.

Any team that wants to beat United will inevitably have to pull away from their defensive posts at some point and then BOOM, Solskjaer’s counterattack machine will turn the gears on the road to Mach speed in less time than it takes to say. ‘one -pony trick’.

Of course, that becomes a bigger problem if the teams aren’t as concerned about beating United. Neither Chelsea nor Manchester City were willing to risk a point for three at Old Trafford. But Solskjaer has played the long game here. He anticipated opponents’ pragmatism with a cowardly plan that revolved around pretending to be dog shit, especially at home, long enough for more Premier League coaches to think ‘this United sucks, let’s do it’, but not so much. as long as they’re not near the top when Christmas comes.

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United has ridiculous strength in depth
Did you see the Solskjaer bank on Sunday?

Above him were the cheeks of arguably England’s best goalkeeper, football’s greatest enigma, PSG’s top scorer in history, a £ 40 million midfielder, Brazil’s left-back, the future of England’s attack, a man even more beautiful than Marcus Rashford… In addition to Nemanja Matic and Eric Bailly.

For each position, Solskjaer has quality coverage. Except on the right back, but what good is January if not to bring Kieran Trippier home? Assuming people and goods can leave and enter the country by then, of course, Trippier would rather see the power of Ole’s Premier League title-winning machine from Europe’s most star-studded bench. What is your alternative? Being forced by Diego Simeone to sweat for a title medal that, let’s be honest, is hardly worth having as Real and Barça try to outdo each other.

Even if some United players run out of steam because they were allowed an offseason that amounted to little more than a tea break, Solskjaer can afford to rotate his squad and has shown his ability to do just that. Many people had forgotten the existence of Daniel James before Solskjaer pulled him out of the cold on Sunday to race very fast against a Leeds defense cowering in a fetal position in three minutes.

The way home doesn’t matter when you’re so far away
United’s form on the road is better than anything the top flight has seen in 60 years.

The Red Devils have won their last 10 games away from Old Trafford having scored two or more in each game. That hasn’t been done since Tottenham in 1960, 32 years before football was invented.

In the Premier League, only Chelsea in 2008/09 and Man City in 2017/18 have won their first six away games as United have this season. Of course, those Chelsea and City teams went on to win the title.

Given that neither team seems to be concerned with mounting a constant charge for the title this season, points lost at home won’t be lost as much as they could have been the season before. But just in case, United opened the floodgates at Old Trafford on Sunday before more unwitting opponents were swept away by the red tide at M16.

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Bruno Fernandes is fucking brilliant
Five good things that will happen in 2020: the world is not over; Donald Trump is toasted; Man Utd hired Bruno Fernandes. And that’s literally it.

Every successful team needs a talisman and in Fernandes, United have certainly found one. The Portugal star has had a greater transformative effect on United than any other signing in the post-Fergie era. AND there have been many of them, although mostly rubbish.

Regardless of the fact that United were almost heavily armed to sign Fernandes out of their own ineptitude and the need to lift their spirits with something shiny new at the end of a miserable January, Ed Woodward found gold when he sanctioned a measure that so many other clubs seemed strangely reluctant to do.

Since joining United, in addition to strengthening an often weak team with a much-needed backbone, Fernandes has been involved in 30 goals in 27 Premier League appearances. Even if you remove the penalties, even though it’s a little weird that you want to do it, he’s still doing ridiculous things …

United would be a proper champion
It’s been a fuck of a season at the end of a fuck of a year. The prospects for 2021 don’t seem any easier, so it’s only right for a shitty team to win the Premier League title.

That’s exactly what this United team is: fascinating and infuriating in equal measure. If Solskjaer can take advantage of the first feature and limit the second, then the Red Devils are in business.

Yes, United have their weaknesses and Jamie Vardy will look to expose the lack of rhythm at the heart of their defense on Boxing Day. But every team this season that is seen as hoping to dethrone Liverpool, as well as Liverpool itself, is flawed.

Solskjaer’s team might not win the title. Liverpool probably will. But United have enough to give it a go, which is more than most of us expected, even a few weeks ago.

Ian Watson



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