What Manchester United did vs Liverpool in the FA Cup that secure their win: REVEALED

This year, Manchester United has started to play better, and their exciting win over Liverpool at Old Trafford put them in the FA Cup semi-final.

It didn’t look good for Erik ten Hag and his team after they lost to Chelsea at the London Stadium on December 23. Four games went by without a goal, and three of those games were losses. Christmas was not good.

At that point, United had lost 13 of their first 26 games in all competitions and hadn’t scored in five of their last six games. They had also just lost 3-0 at home to Bournemouth. In the last three months, they’ve only lost three more times. Things didn’t change right away, but they did change.

One could say that the change is pretty easy. United is still wide open and gives other teams chances, but they are finally getting goals, which is helping them win more games than they lose. In the fall, it wasn’t the case.

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This season, a 4-3 score is pretty common. That was the score in early season games against Bayern Munich and FC Copenhagen that United lost. They’ve beat Wolves and Liverpool by the same score since February. So many of this team’s games are disorganized and wild, but that doesn’t matter as much if they score goals.

There were 439 minutes in December without a goal for United. Since then, they have scored in 14 straight games. They have scored 32 goals in those games, which is an average of 2.28 goals per game. For some background, United scored 32 goals in their first 26 games of the season. The change is very clear.

Since their win over Aston Villa on Christmas Day, United has only kept three clean sheets in their last 14 games. However, they have won ten of those games because they now have enough power to hurt other teams. That could be why Ten Hag says he’s not afraid about the 223 shots that have been fired at United in the last 11 games. A very important fact is that only two of those games have finished in losses.

This strategy still seems to depend on luck, and United will need to show they can control games and limit shots at some point. However, Ten Hag thinks his team can generally go up against the opposition and win games, even if they end in a controversial shootout.

The team’s recent run of eight goals in eight games began with Rasmus Hojlund’s goal against Villa on Christmas Day. Other players have scored goals even when the Dane isn’t playing. Marcus Rashford has scored six goals in those games, Alejandro Garnacho has scored four, and Bruno Fernandes has scored three.

Another big change is that the team looks very different from how they did in the fall and winter. United is still playing in crazy football games. They still give up too much ground in the middle of the field, and the other team always feels like they are in a game. Now, though, United has an attack that can do the same thing.

There’s not much chance that they’ll change before the season is over. Some classics have already been a part of their season. Four 4-3s, one 3-3, three 3-2s, and one 4-2 have happened. Even though United is in a tough spot, the games will still be fun to watch until the end of the season.

Because Andre Onana will still be busy as a goalie, Ten Hag’s team needs the forwards to keep doing what they’re doing if they want to get back into the Champions League or win the FA Cup. This is similar to what they did in Sunday’s classic game at Old Trafford.

In that stretch, 11 different players have scored goals for United. They now have 16 different players score goals in 40 games this season, which is a huge number. This is a very amazing number.