• ‘Every one of us has to do better’ for Erik ten Hag
• Maguire surprised by omission from England squad

Harry Maguire has urged his teammates not to blame Erik ten Hag for Manchester United’s poor form but to take personal responsibility, as they head for Sunday’s pivotal trip to Aston Villa.

United are looking to bounce back from last weekend’s demoralising 3-0 loss to Tottenham in the Premier League at Old Trafford and allowing a 2-0 lead over Porto in the Europa League to become a 3-2 deficit, before Maguire’s equaliser in added time.

Over five windows and a £600m spend, few arrivals have made a significant positive impact at Manchester United

The first signing of the Erik ten Hag era, ticking the key criterion of coming from the Eredivisie. It’s difficult to say too much about a player who last featured in June 2023. The left-back made a lot of appearances in his first season but a knee injury has kept him out for 16 months. Rating 1/5

Twelve goals, multiple mistakes – we assess the goals let in by Ten Hag’s team this term and the lessons unlearned

Thursday’s 3-3 draw at Porto means Manchester United have conceded 12 goals in the opening nine games of the season, and there are recurring themes: the scorer allowed a lot of space in the box, defenders not being aggressive enough, crosses being a particular problem. We analyse every goal and give each one a rating out of five for awfulness. We’ve not included the Community Shield as that was only partly competitive. You might want to look away, Erik …

• Minority owner evasive when asked about club’s manager
• Ratcliffe: ‘I don’t want to answer that … he’s a good coach’

The Manchester United co-owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has added to the uncertainty of Erik ten Hag’s future by declaring any decision on the manager is “not my call”.

Speaking in Barcelona, in the aftermath of the Ineos Britannia, the sailing team he funds, winning the Louis Vuitton Cup to reach next week’s America’s Cup, Ratcliffe was asked about his other sporting interest.

• Manchester United captain sent off in two straight games
• Manager plays down talk of team’s disciplinary problems

Erik ten Hag has denied that Manchester United have a discipline problem after Bruno Fernandes received a second red card in successive games against Porto on Thursday, following on from the one he received against Tottenham on Sunday and which was eventually overturned by the Football Association on appeal.

Fernandes’s sending-off in the 3-0 defeat by Spurs was the result of a straight red card. United also received five yellow cards during the contest at Old Trafford, with two more being shown to their captain in his native Portugal in midweek, each for a high boot, the second on the central defender Nehuén Pérez as Fernandes attempted to meet a cross close to Porto’s goal as United trailed 3-2 in a Europa League game they eventually drew 3-3 thanks to Harry Maguire’s stoppage-time header.

Manchester United left Porto's Estádio do Dragão with a point after squandering a two-goal lead, leading Erik ten Hag to criticise his team's defending. Marcus Rashford and Rasmus Højlund gave Manchester United an early lead before Harry Maguire equalised in stoppage time after the hosts fought back to lead 3-2.

"The players executed the plan brilliantly," Ten Hag said. "Then we switched off ... you concede the first goal, you light up the fire in this stadium.

"I have to watch it back. I think over the left side, definitely, we didn't defend well tonight. And Marcus [Rashford] also played a part in this ... but as I say it had to do with Garnacho. Nothing against 'Rashy'."

• Ten Hag criticises Rashford in Porto but denies substitution was punishment

Gary O’Neil finds himself in a tight spot, Jadon Sancho helps lead Chelsea revival and Leicester need to get on front foot

Liverpool have not lost at Selhurst Park since November 2014 when Dwight Gayle opened the scoring in a 3-1 win for a side then managed by Neil Warnock. But having seen their title challenge waver last season after losing at Anfield in April to a goal from Eberechi Eze, Arne Slot will be wary of facing a Crystal Palace team that has yet to record a victory in the Premier League this season. Fresh from his brilliant goal against Bologna in the Champions League, Mohamed Salah will be licking his lips at the prospect of facing a new-look Palace defence that has not looked convincing this season despite a 0-0 draw against Manchester United in their last home match. The Egyptian scored his 200th Liverpool goal against them in December to take his tally to eight in just 11 appearances, not to mention seven assists. Ed Aarons

Crystal Palace v Liverpool, Saturday 12.30pm (all times BST)

Arsenal v Southampton, Saturday 3pm

Brentford v Wolves, Saturday 3pm

Leicester v Bournemouth, Saturday 3pm

Manchester City v Fulham, Saturday 3pm

West Ham v Ipswich, Saturday 3pm

• Manager unhappy with United’s defending in Porto
• ‘Don’t judge us in this moment,’ he says after 3-3 draw

Erik ten Hag criticised Marcus Rashford for his part in the poor defending that allowed Porto’s opening goal in Manchester United’s 3-3 draw with Porto, but denied the forward was taken off for this at half-time, stating it was simply to rotate his squad.

United raced into a 2-0 lead on 20 minutes at Estádio do Dragão through Rashford and Rasmus Højlund but let this slip as Pepê and Samu drew Porto level across seven first-half minutes. Pepê’s goal derived from a cross along Rashford’s left flank and the manager was asked if this was why he replaced him with Alejandro Garnacho.

The darkest point is supposedly always before dawn. Did Harry Maguire’s late equaliser cast Manchester United’s 3-0 loss against Tottenham as this? Because beforehand, Erik ten Hag was leading his men into an ever bleaker pitch-blackness. From 2-0 up to 2-2 in seven first-half minutes, to allowing a third that seemed to kill off United, then to Bruno Fernandes’s second red card in two matches. This seemed to have Ten Hag’s tenure heading for oblivion.

It may still do: the Dutch manager likes to quip he is no Harry Potter. The escape here with a draw has him, for tonight, as Harry Houdini. But for how long can he escape the Sir Jim Ratcliffe axe?

• Updates from the 8pm BST start at the Estádio do Dragão
• Ferencvaros v Tottenham, Europa League – live updates
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2 min And again! Samu is the provider this time, cutting back from the inside-right channel. Galeno’s shot is on target and Onana tips it over.

1 min Porto in the United box already! Their striker Samu gets a shot in, but it’s easily blocked.

• Manager expects players to react after Spurs defeat
• Results at Porto and Aston Villa could decide his future

Erik ten Hag has stated that Manchester United are “mad” at losing 3-0 against Tottenham on Sunday and must use it as motivation against Porto on Thursday in a game the manager may need to win to keep his job.

United’s woeful display against Spurs has left Ten Hag’s position in the balance and, with the team down in 13th place in the Premier League, he desperately needs a reaction in the Europa League on Thursday.

• FA overturn Manchester United captain’s early dismissal
• Means he can face Aston Villa, Brentford and West Ham

Erik ten Hag has received a welcome boost after Bruno Fernandes’s red card in Manchester United’s 3-0 loss to Tottenham on Sunday was deemed by the Football Association to be a wrongful dismissal. It means the captain’s three-game ban has been reversed.

With United in 12th following the weekend humiliation, and Ten Hag’s job in the balance due to United’s poor start to the season, Fernandes had been set to miss Sunday’s trip to Aston Villa, as well as games against Brentford and West Ham. He can now feature in all of those fixtures after United decided to appeal the decision by referee Christopher Kavanagh to send-off the midfielder just before half-time at Old Trafford for his seemingly reckless challenge on James Maddison as the hosts trailed 1-0. Replays clearly showed Fernandes had slipped as he looked to close down Maddison and that this had a material impact on his subsequent challenge, which was also little more than a light clip, making it somewhat baffling that VAR did not overturn the decision at the time.

Outcome of games against Porto and Aston Villa may settle things for United’s board despite desire to show faith

After deciding in the summer not to sack Erik ten Hag and extending his contract to 2026, the Sir Jim Ratcliffe-led football department would appear a touch silly if he were removed six Premier League matches into the season. So, the stance at the club the morning after the 3-0 humiliation by Tottenham at Old Trafford on Sunday was a resolve to remain serene while acknowledging the defeat, and its manner, as anathema to the excellence pursued by Ratcliffe, his chief executive, Omar Berrada, and the sporting director, Dan Ashworth. Ten league outings may seem a more prudent test of Ten Hag and his piloting of the squad but lose at Porto, on Thursday in the Europa League, and at Aston Villa, on Sunday in the league, and the cull may come. Especially with an international break after the Villa game.

• Dutchman expected to stay for next two matches at least
• Defeat to Porto or Aston Villa could result in his removal

Erik ten Hag is set to remain Manchester United manager for Thursday’s trip to Porto and Sunday’s visit to Aston Villa, with the club’s executive “calm” regarding his position despite Sunday’s humiliating 3-0 loss to Tottenham.

The reverse at Old Trafford leaves United 12th in the Premier League with seven points from six matches, and a goal difference of -3, having scored only five times. Sunday’s result represented a second consecutive 3-0 loss in the league at home, following the capitulation to Liverpool on 1 September.

Another thumping home defeat highlights a weak club that did not know what it wanted in the summer, or lacked the nous to get what it wanted over the line

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Who did not think that, sooner or later, we’d be here again? At the end of last season, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Sir Dave Brailsford and the rest of the Ineos leadership at Manchester United spoke to numerous potential candidates after the club finished eighth in the Premier League with a negative goal-difference. They decided they would, after all, keep Erik ten Hag on as manager. After that decision, who did not foresee a point in the near future when, after another run of poor results, they would be back in the same place as before, just several million pounds poorer having bought another load of Dutch and Dutch-adjacent players?

This is United and that means these problems are always complicated by the memory of Sir Alex Ferguson, who endured some lean years before finally winning the league in his seventh season at the club. The instinct for fans is always to show patience. Nobody wants to be Pete Molyneux, the fan who held up a banner reading “Three years of excuses and it’s still crap … ta-ra Fergie” six months before the decisive 1990 FA Cup triumph that was a springboard to Ferguson’s success.

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Lucy Ward, and Jonathan Wilson to discuss all the weekend’s Premier League action

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On the podcast today, the panel breaks down where it went wrong for Manchester United and where it went right for Tottenham at Old Trafford. What is next for Manchester United and Erik ten Hag?

Arteta’s explanation baffles, Palmer exposes Hürzeler’s tactics and how long before a big club pounces for Mbeumo?

Has the curse of the Manchester United contract struck for the second year in succession? After Marcus Rashford agreed a bumper new deal a year ago, he promptly endured a miserable 2023-24 season. This summer, it was Bruno Fernandes’ turn to sign a lucrative extension – one that few could grumble with at the time. Yet the Portuguese, usually a beacon of consistency for United through all their ups and downs, has started the campaign in scruffy and sluggish fashion. He has yet to score this season, has only one assist in six Premier League matches and is increasingly cutting a frustrated figure. That frustration came pouring out in his callow kick at James Maddison, which left United – struggling enough when it was 11 v 11 – down and out with 10 men. Fernandes deserves credit for fronting up after the game but that interview was his most significant contribution of the afternoon. Dominic Booth

Match report: Manchester United 0-3 Tottenham

Match report: Arsenal 4-2 Leicester

Match report: Newcastle 1-1 Manchester City

Match report: Ipswich 2-2 Aston Villa

Match report: Chelsea 4-2 Brighton

Match report: Wolves 1-2 Liverpool

• Club vow to take ‘strongest possible action’
• Statement says it is ‘simply unacceptable’

Tottenham have condemned the “abhorrent homophobic chanting” from sections of the away support during the side’s 3-0 win at Manchester United on Sunday.

Spurs issued a statement on Sunday evening vowing to take “the strongest possible action” over the offensive chants, which were allegedly aimed at United’s former Chelsea midfielder Mason Mount and the Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta.

• Manager “not thinking about” job security
• United 12th in top flight after 3-0 Spurs loss

Erik ten Hag denied any concern that he may be sacked by ­Manchester United after Tottenham’s 3-0 ­humiliation of his side at Old Trafford on Sunday.

United were in disarray from ­Brennan Johnson’s third-minute opener, before Bruno Fernandes was sent off later in the first half. Dejan Kulesevksi and Dominic Solanke also scored for the visitors after the break.

Chastening defeat adds to Old Trafford crisis story but the reality is they were simply undone by a maverick opponent

Well, Manchester United: here’s your Wembley of the North. Several years ahead of schedule, and perhaps not quite as envisaged in the architects’ drawings, but note-perfect in most other respects. A retail temple with a football concession attached; a shrine to wasted money; a ground where the noise barely rises above a disgruntled murmur, and where Tottenham feel pleasantly at home.

Afterwards, Erik ten Hag tried to maintain some semblance of dignity, like a plumber calmly filling out his invoice even as brown water sloshes around his knees. After all, this is not simply a job but an office, and even in moments of decay a certain carriage is demanded. “Is there a fire drill?” the Tottenham fans gleefully asked as Old Trafford slowly emptied. There wasn’t. But the real thing is beginning to feel dangerously close.