{"id":36935,"date":"2025-09-10T05:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-manchester-united-have-been-better-than-their-results\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T05:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T05:48:02","slug":"why-manchester-united-have-been-better-than-their-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-manchester-united-have-been-better-than-their-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Manchester United have been better than their results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">With just two Premier League wins since the start of April, it seems only a fool would say that Manchester United have been improving under Ruben Amorim\u2026and yet that&#8217;s exactly what the stats suggest.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While only Tottenham have taken fewer points in their last 10 games, United&#8217;s underlying numbers suggest their performances have deserved more and, if anything, it&#8217;s the players who have underperformed more than Amorim and his much-maligned formation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We&#8217;ve excluded penalties to show how good United have been at creating and restricting chances themselves, rather than relying on opposition clumsiness or shirt-pulling like they did to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c6209330ywkt\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">score the winner against Burnley.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As you can see, United have taken the most shots in the Premier League in the last 10 games, while only rivals Manchester City &#8211; Sunday&#8217;s Premier League opponents &#8211; have faced fewer among the 17 sides ever-present during the time frame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The big problem has been scoring and saving them, with United&#8217;s players scoring seven goals fewer than Premier League players have historically from the chances they&#8217;ve had and conceding four goals more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/clylv9n2rmjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With just two Premier League wins since the start of April, it seems only a fool would say that Manchester United have been improving under Ruben Amorim\u2026and yet that&#8217;s exactly what the stats suggest. While only Tottenham have taken fewer points in their last 10 games, United&#8217;s underlying numbers suggest their performances have deserved more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1309,2821,2057],"class_list":["post-36935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-manchester","tag-results","tag-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36937,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36935\/revisions\/36937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}