Everton 4-0 Manchester United: 5 factors that contributed to United's downfall

#4 Lack of pressing

Everton FC v Manchester United - Premier League

This has been United’s weakness of late. Solskjaer team has suddenly shown a reluctance to put pressure on the opponent. Against Everton too, it was a glaring aspect of their game which caught the eye.

United afforded the home side too much time on the ball and too much room on the field and Everton made very good use of it. There was no urgency in United’s play, and the away side’s laid back approach cost them the game.

Every time the home side had the ball, they were invited to run at United. Everton piled up the pressure on the away side in the early stages and threatened on the set pieces. It was from a long throw that they opened the scoring. Dalot failed to close down Richarlison, who scored with his left foot.

For the second goal, Matic failed to close down Sigurdsson as Everton piled up the bodies on the counter. The Icelandic midfielder had all the time in the world to cut inside, adjust his footing and shoot at goal to score Everton’s second. Martial committed a similar error for the third goal.