{"id":5130,"date":"2024-12-30T22:42:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/?p=5130"},"modified":"2024-12-30T22:42:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:42:18","slug":"man-united-ship-0-2-loss-to-newcastle-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/man-united-ship-0-2-loss-to-newcastle-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Toothless Man United ship 0-2 loss to Newcastle United as Premier League woes continue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In another disastrous performance at home tonight, Man United succumbed to their fifth loss in a month in league competition for the first time in more than 50 years with tonight\u2019s dismal loss to Newcastle, shipping a dominant 0-2 defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United, who entered tonight\u2019s Old Trafford return off the back of another toothless defeat away to Wolves last week, continued their terrible league run \u2013 with early signs pointing to an inherent defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Failing to deal with an early cross from full back, Lewis Hall \u2013 United were a goal down inside the opening ten minutes, with in-form forward, Alexander Isak heading past an at-sea Andre Onana for the opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Man United drop 0-2 loss to Newcastle in Premier League return<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

And ahead of a trip to Anfield this weekend to take on league leaders, Liverpool, fans can still bet on massive betting underdogs United to at the SportsMillions fantasy sports site<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>in what would return any punters or bettors a healthy profit if they were to upset their fierce rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just moments later with less than a half hour elapsed in the first half, Man United once more conceded from a cross, with Newcastle wideman, Anthony Gordon finding Brazilian midfielder, Joelinton in the six-yard box, who once more headed home<\/a> past Cameroonian stopper, Onana.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Completely overran in midfield \u2013 which consisted of the ageing, Christian Eriksen and former Real Madrid anchor, Casemiro, coach Ruben Amorim made a controversial substitution, hooking Dutch forward, Joshua Zirkzee off after half an hour in place of academy number six, Kobbie Mainoo.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storming down the tunnel sporting his jacket, former Bologna forward, Zirkzee soon returned to United\u2019s bench \u2013 with the Old Trafford faithful cheering his withdrawal following his slow start to life in English football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing his thoughts during commentary duty on Zirkzee\u2019s departure from the pitch after just half an hour of football, former Man United full back, Gary Neville described his past side as the \u201cworst\u201d team \u2013 pound-for-pound in English football right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s absolutely brutal,\u201d Gary Neville explained. \u201cI haven\u2019t seen that too many times in the 43 years I\u2019ve been coming to Old Trafford. He\u2019s going straight down the tunnel and I actually don\u2019t blame him because sometimes it\u2019s a massive embarrassment. He\u2019s not played well, let\u2019s be clear. You’re watching the worst pound for pound football team in the country, bar none.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And himself commenting on his decision to withdraw Zirkzee in place of midfield youngster, Mainoo, Portuguese head coach, Amorim claimed he was attempting to alter the flow of the match and restore some parity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf I think that I could do something to change the result, I do,\u201d Ruben Amorim said. \u201cLike I said it was more the belief from the players, less my job of changing something. In this moment we don\u2019t have training and we don\u2019t have the base. When you\u2019re in the difficult moment, you need that base. They were better than us, plain and simple.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This weekend, United travel to Merseyside to take on league leaders, Liverpool \u2013 before returning to FA Cup action in a defense of the domestic cup in a fierce pairing with a third round clash against Arsenal in another trip to North London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In another disastrous performance at home tonight, Man United succumbed to their fifth loss in a month in league competition for the first time in more than 50 years with tonight\u2019s dismal loss to Newcastle, shipping a dominant 0-2 defeat. United, who entered tonight\u2019s Old Trafford return off the back of another toothless defeat away…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Soccer"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MixCollage-30-Dec-2024-10-38-PM-7291-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Ross Markey","author_link":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/author\/rossmarkey\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Soccer","slug":"soccer","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":504,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":504,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Soccer","category_nicename":"soccer","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5130\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soccerballworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}