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"All the eyes will be on this game globally," Erik ten Hag said ahead of the Manchester derby, the hype tinged with fear of what lay in wait for his side. All of those eyes saw Ten Hag's Manchester United melt under the furnace blast of Manchester City's second-half excellence. Erling Haaland scored twice before teeing up Phil Foden to complete a classy win. Opta run the season's remaining fixtures through 10,000 simulations with their vaunted supercomputer. Each team is assigned a ranking based on a mixture of betting odds and a hierarchical Elo-based rating system to predict what is most likely to happen over the coming months. In the wake of Sunday's derby defeat , here's how United are expected to fare in the remainder of the Premier League season. Supercomputer predicts where Man Utd will finish in 2023/24 Premier League season Manchester United's players were universally dejected after the derby / Michael Regan/GettyImages Rank Team 1. Man Cit...

PGMOL chief Howard Webb has confessed Manchester City midfielder Mateo Kovacic should have been shown a red card in his side's 1-0 defeat to Arsenal. Kovacic was shown a yellow card for a tough challenge on Martin Odegaard, with VAR declining to upgrade the decision to a straight red, before another dangerous tackle on Declan Rice went unpunished by both the referee and VAR. The decision not to dismiss Kovacic proved particularly controversial as it drew similarities to a challenge from Chelsea's Malo Gusto which saw him shown a straight red in his side's 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa. Webb argued Gusto's red card was the correct call and acknowledged Kovacic should have met a similar fate. "This is clearly a poor tackle and I am pretty confident if a red card had been given by Michael Oliver on the day it would have been a very straightforward, 'Check complete'," he told Mic'd Up . "But he doesn’t. He issues a yellow card. I think there are a ...

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag said his team "played a very good game" in Sunday's defeat to Arsenal but was less than impressed with refereeing decisions he claimed were responsible for the result. United took time to warm into the game at the Emirates Stadium but took the lead through Marcus Rashford midway through the first half with their first attempt. Arsenal hit back immediately through Martin Odegaard, while Alejandro Garnacho thought he had won it late on for the visitors only to be deemed offside by VAR. United had earlier thanked VAR for overturning what would have been a soft penalty when Kai Havertz took a tumble in the box, but Declan Rice put Arsenal ahead in the 96th minute and Gabriel Jesus then compounded the misery. "I think the performance is right for us. We played a very good Game but everything went against us. Then you don’t win the Game . You need a little bit more luck to win the Game ," Ten Hag told Sky Sports . "[Garnach...