Except we're not shit, we're a very expensively assembled side who should be achieving a top 4 finish most seasons with ease, and we absolutely should be dispatching teams like Barnsley. We have some very, very capable players, so when you put a team of this calibre out against a League One side you expect a hammering. I feel for any manager of a big club in this situation because anything less than a resounding win draws criticism, and that's the same all over the world, it isn't exclusive to Ten Hag and Manchester United.
We have though, the reason Ten Hag is still here is because we occasionally look like we have our shit together, but as I said, it's predictably against teams that are way off our level. As soon as we come up against a team that is organised and knows how to play against us we look all at sea.
I enjoyed the game last night, I enjoyed it as much as anyone could watching your team score 7 pretty routine goals against a League One side who couldn't get close to our players in the final 3rd, it could have been 10 or more. But lets face it, it's job done stuff, not lap of honour for a famous win stuff, so if it seems like I'm disappointed, I'm not, it's just tick the box and move on to the next game. It's not even a Ten Hag thing, we beat Southampton under Ole 9-0. We enjoyed it, we expected a win, we moved on right away, same for this game.
If we manage to batter Palace this weekend I'll be pleasantly surprised, because this is the type of game we usually struggle in. There's no suggestion we've turned a corner yet so I can't relax going into games because our performances are predictable based on who the opposition are. So until that changes, it feels very much like business as usual for United and Ten Hag.