Manchester United 1-1 Everton: 3 Reasons Why Red Devils failed to win | Premier League 2019-20

Manchester United v Everton FC - Premier League
Manchester United v Everton FC - Premier League

2. Inability to keep a clean-sheet

Manchester United v Everton FC - Premier League
Manchester United v Everton FC - Premier League

David De Gea won the golden glove in the 2017/18 season when he registered 18 shutouts, but he has come nowhere near to repeating those exploits ever since. Following Victor Lindelof's first-half own goal, the Spanish goalkeeper conceded for the 12th league game in a row this season. That, in a nutshell, is a club record for Manchester United and for all the wrong reasons.

On a day when United's attack was misfiring, spurning chances and lacking creativity in the final third, the dismal state of their defence failed to bail them out. This is United's longest sequence without a clean-sheet since August 1971.

United last recorded a clean-sheet in the Premier League on September 14 when they beat Leicester City 1-0 at Old Trafford. Despite their £80 million signing of Harry Maguire from the Foxes during the summer, they are still leaking goals.

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