Erik ten Hag has presided over an appalling start to the season but there is not the sense of inevitabilty around his fate that there was with his predecessor two years ago.
Crisis talk is never far away when you're the manager of the biggest club in England. Each and every Manchester United defeat is greeted with forensic analysis, excruciating radio phone-ins and online uproar but Erik ten Hag has the personality to deal with the pressure.
Well, as it turns out, no thank you. United were abject in the league loss to Palace and only marginally better against the Turkish champions. There were some plus points on Tuesday night - Rasmus Hojlund was monstrous at the tip of the attack; Mason Mount, although he is yet to hit his 2020-22 Chelsea heights, is growing in stature; Hannibal, too, gave another solid account of himself before he was sacrificed in favour of a ball-playing midfielder in Christian Eriksen at half-time.
There are, thankfully, mitigating circumstances when it comes to United's shambolic defending. Their defensive injury crisis is well-documented. United have three injured left-backs and the central defender that is most-suited to playing at left-back is also injured. Amrabat has played at left-back six times in his career and half of those appearances have come in the last 10 days. The other half all came for Utrecht in 2016, against Eredivisie middlers Heracles, Vitesse and Heerenveen, unsurprisingly when Ten Hag was the Utrecht manager.
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