Honestly, you could say that their performance is decreasing. Are they just satisfied with last season's achievements so they are proud to have entered the Champions League this season? So they only focus on their credibility last season. Meanwhile, this season, their performance has dropped drastically. the defeat against Brighton this time could be said to be a crushing defeat. Not only did they lose at home, but they lost 1 - 3 to Brighton. Even though they are not just an ordinary team. They are Man United. However, so far, Ten Hag has still not been able to optimize his team in the EPL. Likewise for the Man United players, they don't seem to be able to defend their team wholeheartedly, so they are often not optimal. Lots of wasted opportunities here. It is deeply regretted.
Of course Manchester United performance is decrease worse if we look at their final results in the last two matches. I don't expect them to be satisfied with their performance last season in making it back to the Champions League and Erik Ten Hag performance was highly praised last season. But in fact he failed to maintain his best performance at the start of this season after making many blunders in the transfer window this season, such as releasing De Gea. Their unstable performance looks bad enough to be able to compete with other big teams this season. Manchester United currently needs a turnaround process for the better and it looks like it will take time for Erik Ten Hag. Currently, the two big EPL teams, Manchester United and Chelsea, are ranked 13th and 14th in the standings respectively.
I don't watch Premier League often, just watch some random matches but when I see Manchester United matches, one question pops up in my mind, how can a team perform when you have Harry Maguire in your squad and play 10-12? But United really become a weird team, everyone who plays well in other clubs and moves here, starts playing bad, Maguire is another example of that. But at the moment, fact is, he is a terrible player and I don't understand why is he still a captain and why don't they transfer him, is this because of 80 million GBP?