Burnley vs Manchester United Preview
Burnley vs Manchester United Preview
It's bounce-back time! Manchester United travel to Burnley, aiming to get their second win of the season after back-to-back defeats to Brighton away and Tottenham at home. Back-to-back defeats of late have come at seriously inopportune moments of the respective seasons. Last year, defeats to Tottenham and Newcastle essentially gave Manchester City more space to cleave through the rest of the Premier League and allowed the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs to edge closer to second place. The year before, United suffered early defeats to Man City at home and Watford away with a Europa League defeat to Feyenoord sandwiched between the two. In the final season of Van Gaal's short tenure, United suffered three December defeats on the bounce to newly-promoted Bournemouth and Norwich, as well as a 2-0 defeat at Stoke on Boxing Day, which only put more pressure on the experienced Dutchman as his future at United continued to be questioned.
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It's bounce-back time! Manchester United travel to Burnley, aiming to get their second win of the season after back-to-back defeats to Brighton away and Tottenham at home. Back-to-back defeats of late have come at seriously inopportune moments of the respective seasons. Last year, defeats to Tottenham and Newcastle essentially gave Manchester City more space to cleave through the rest of the Premier League and allowed the likes of Liverpool, Chelsea and Spurs to edge closer to second place. The year before, United suffered early defeats to Man City at home and Watford away with a Europa League defeat to Feyenoord sandwiched between the two. In the final season of Van Gaal's short tenure, United suffered three December defeats on the bounce to newly-promoted Bournemouth and Norwich, as well as a 2-0 defeat at Stoke on Boxing Day, which only put more pressure on the experienced Dutchman as his future at United continued to be questioned.
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