Man United were on a roll during the first half of this season and at one point, they were even being considered as genuine title contenders.
But over the past few weeks, their form has taken a sudden dip and right now, they find themselves 14 points behind Premier League leaders Man City. Things could get even worse since they will now have to face City in the Manchester Derby on Sunday.
Speaking ahead of this match, Solskjaer was asked as to why his side have seen a sudden dip form.
Solskjaer said, as per Manutd.com: “You know when you get the results that you get, sometimes you seem and tend to forget about the performances on the back of the game. The West Brom game wasn’t the best quality but we felt there was improvements to be made on that one. The Palace game, of course.
“If you compare that one to last year’s game against Palace, it’s not very dissimilar but we had two or three fantastic moments with Marcus [Rashford] and Anthony [Martial], the two goals that they scored in that game.
“That was the spark, really, really top-class football. Still, in the Premier League, when the opposition don’t make mistakes, like Palace never did, you have to earn the right with the quality. We just lacked a little bit of that in the last few games. Still, we’ve gone 10 games unbeaten.
“Three weeks ago, four weeks ago, we couldn’t defend and did really well attacking-wise, that was the narrative anyway. Now the narrative is that we can’t score a goal. It’s a week without us scoring goals, it’s not long ago since we played some fantastic football against [Real] Sociedad, good goals against Newcastle, Southampton. It’s sometimes margins, you know, in football.
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“One little step back now, one day extra recovery before the derby and hopefully we can get that spark back.”
Can Man United keep their unbeaten run going?
Man United are unbeaten in their last 21 away matches in the Premier League but that record is under serious threat this weekend.
City have been winning games at will over the past few months and to be honest, Man United have also been scraping through in their recent few away games.
It will not take much for City’s forwards to breach the Manchester United backline on Sunday so players like Bruno Fernandes and Rashford will have to ensure that they can score goals.
There’s very little chance that Man United will walk out of this match with a clean sheet so the only way to pick up a win at the Etihad is if they score one more goal than their opponents.
