But it was the sprint statistics that revealed just how far off the pace United were as they slumped to their third Premier League defeat of the campaign. In fact, United sprinted so little that Liverpool , the league-leaders in running, upped their pace nearly three times as often as their great rivals. United only recorded 58 sprints during the 90 minutes of the game at West Ham . So from bottom team to second bottom, there is a huge gap - and that’s the big problem. "Also the biggest problem with being bottom is that they were losing the game from very early in the game.

Source: Daily Mirror October 01, 2018 22:41 UTC