MANCHESTER UNITED MAY be in the midst of a lengthy unbeaten run in the Premier League – but that’s not to say their form is impressive.
The run, which dates back to their defeat against Chelsea last October, saw them dubbed “the new Invincibles” in one Guardian article last week.
But the 20-game sequence that Jose Mourinho has led his team on without defeat has produced only 40 points and has seen the Red Devils remain outside the top four.
Stats experts Opta have revealed that of all the teams to put together an unbeaten run of 20 or more matches in the Premier League era, this United team have scored the lowest percentage of victories.
Exactly half of the games that Mourinho’s men have played since that 4-0 loss to Chelsea have ended in a draw, with Tuesday’s tie at home to Everton typifying that as Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored a late penalty to salvage a point.
The Red Devils have drawn six of their last nine Premier League outings, sharing the points with teams such as Stoke, Hull, Bournemouth and West Brom.
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They would have been better off losing 6 of those games and winning 14, would have had 2 more points. It looks like they will fall short of the top 4 but they are lucky there is no top teams in the Europa League this year unlike Seville and Dortmund last year.
Look at the state of Arsenal under the Prof.
Yes and they were beaten in january by Hull. Sorry Jose. Cant be 20 matches unbeaten. The convenient truth.
@Vincent Carragher: read the article, it’s about unbeaten runs in the premier league
@Vincent Carragher: Arsenal lost games in their invincible season too, how may cups did they win?
@David: not defending the gunners.
@domas1507: yes article us good. They lost in january. Jose denied that. Just saying. Not much of a run.
The unconvinceables