MU ranked 6th still has a negative difference, is the cause really due to poor defense?

 If you look at the Premier League rankings right now, you will see a paradox, MU is ranked 6th with 38 points, but the goal difference is -1. Among the top 10 teams in the Premier League, only one team has a negative difference, which is Man United.

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A story with a score has become a big joke on the internet in the past 2 months. People don't even know why MU can do that. Most people's judgments are directed towards the fault of the defense, because only bad defense will have a negative coefficient. But is it really all because of the elementary mistakes of goalkeeper Andre Onana and the defense that MU has conceded 32 goals up to this point?

Wait a minute. Tottenham ranked 5th suffered 35 goals, Aston Villa ranked 4th also suffered 30 goals. Looking down, we see that the remaining teams in the top 10 all have worse defenses than MU. So why do all the teams just mentioned have a positive difference, while MU has a negative difference? Yes, it's because the attack is so bad. It's the attackers' failure to score more goals than they concede that causes Man United to suffer a negative coefficient, making them a joke on the internet, what else?

Tottenham went into the net and picked up the ball 35 times, 3 times more than MU, but Son Heung-min and his teammates on the attack finished the opponent 49 times. Similarly, Newcastle conceded 37 goals, 5 more than MU, but their striker knows how to score 48 goals, so how can the coefficient be negative?

Now, go back to the attack line to "identify the culprit". If you say what is the gloomiest picture of Manchester United in this 2023/24 season, the answer is the lackluster performance of the strikers. Key striker Rasmus Hojlund, who was bought with the expectation of becoming the "new Halaand" but created a "rare and difficult to find" 4-month streak in Premier League history, only exploded in recent rounds.

MU's attack is too poor

Let's say Hojlund is a rookie who hasn't integrated yet, so how can Rashford with 4 goals in 23 matches be explained? Is Antony's 0 goals and 0 assists up to this point an "accident"? MU criticized Chelsea's Nicolas Jackson as "wooden", but sorry, people have scored 7 goals in the Premier League right now. In addition, it can be seen that Coach Ten Hag's trio Antony - Garnacho - Hojlund plays in a "strong" style. Beneath Bruno Fernandes is always nagging and Scott McTominay is having a blast. At this point, it is we who have to apologize to Onana and Maguire a few more times. Carrying the entire attack to this point, scoring 24 goals and still helping MU to 7th place is too good.

However, with the rising form of Hojlund and Garnacho in recent matches, MU fans can expect a brighter future for the attackers in the return period.