Manchester United is a powder keg just two games into new season – here is why

When Liverpool pitched up at Old Trafford last August it was against a backdrop of chaos and concern at Manchester United. Protests, poor results, worrying performances, striker issues, injury headaches and transfer woes, the season was only a couple of weeks old and the problems were already piling up for Erik ten Hag. Even at that embryonic stage of the campaign, the Liverpool game represented a must win for a club that had been soundly beaten by Brighton and battered by Brentford and was wres