By Miracle Ogunde
Manchester United, today got embarrassed by a 3-0 home defeat to Bournemouth in the Round 16th fixture of the English Premier league.
Bournemouth’s fine form continued as the Cherries secured their first ever victory at Old Trafford in style on a day United’s season hit a new low.
Erik ten Hag’s men had risen to sixth thanks to six wins in eight Premier League games.
But a dreadful display put the Dutchman’s position back under the spotlight ahead of a likely exit from the Champions League at the group stage in midweek.
Ten Hag watched as goals from Dominic Solanke, Philip Billing and Marcos Senesi gave the visitors all three points against Man United at Old Trafford.
Speaking after the game, Ten Hag suggested that his team was defeated because they were not at their best against the visitors.
“You have to be at your best in every game, starting with focus. When you start like we did, you get killed,” Ten Hag said at his post-match interview.
In another premier league fixture, Arsenal fell to a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa who defeated Manchester City during the week.
The host scored in 7 minutes to the game and defended it till the last minute.
Despite several chances Arsenal had, they failed to convert them to goals.
Aston Villa have already beaten Arsenal, Man City, Chelsea, Tottenham and Brighton in their opening 16 games this season.
Arsenal were the last side to take points from Villa Park.
With victory this time out Aston Villa FC have set a new club record for consecutive home wins, totalling 15, the first time in the club’s 149-year history.
In the German Bundesliga, Bayern Munich lost for the first time in the Bundesliga this season in stunning fashion, with Eintracht Frankfurt putting the champions to the sword on Saturday.
Eintracht had lost four consecutive matches in all competitions heading into this one, but they took the lead after 12 minutes, when an effort from Farès Chaïbi came back off the crossbar, and Omar Marmoush was on hand to score his seventh goal of the season.
The second goal came after 31 minutes and Éric Dina Ebimbe was the scorer, with his shot squirming through Manuel Neuer’s grasp.
Bayern’s afternoon got even worse when they fell three behind a few minutes later. Joshua Kimmich lost possession cheaply and was punished by Hugo Larsson finding the net.
Kimmich atoned for that error by pulling a goal back from distance just before half-time, but early in the second half Dina Ebimbe got his second goal to make it 4-1 after Dayot Upamecano had been caught in possession.
It got worse for Thomas Tuchel’s side just after the hour mark too, with Ansgar Knauff lashing past Neuer to rub salt in the wounds.
That result leaves Bayern three points behind league leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who travel to face third-placed Stuttgart on Sunday, While Eintracht are up to seventh.
The results and many others on Saturday has made many lovers of sport betting to count their loses as the results went against their predictions before the games.
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