Why are Manchester United so bad; a derby edition

After very un-Manchester United results; the 2–2 Atalanta, 5–0 loss to Liverpool, 4–2 loss to Leicester, losses to Aston Villa and West Ham, I thought it was about time to break into Manchester United’s tactics with their game against Manchester City.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer thought, after that loss to Liverpool, changing from his 4–2–3–1 to a 5–3–2 would help stabilise his team, and it worked against an even worse team in Tottenham, but it didn’t really work against Atalanta in the Champions League. Nevertheless he decided to stick with it in the…