Early troubles could see Red Devils season end in disaster

Two games into the season and United's season already looks in jeopardy

Based off early predictions for this season Manchester City were tipped to win the league title with Liverpool expected to give them a good push and Manchester United to finish third. However, based off the results of this weekend, the prediction of a Red Devils finish in third look to be far off base.

United suffered their first loss of the season at the hands of Brighton, and while it may be too early in the season to doom this campaign to failure making a bad start to the season will not help their cause considering the type of starts their rivals have made after the first two games.

City were slick as ever in their 6-1 demolition of Huddersfield, Sarri's Chelsea made a good start to their campaign pipping rivals Arsenal to three points at home and Tottenham had a 3-1 win over a newly promoted Fulham.

Even though Liverpool are set to play their second fixture of the season tonight there has been a clear message about being positive and starting the season on the right note. And considering how premium a spot in the top four will be from now on United's early season performance could prove to be the difference in them finishing outside of the Champions League places.

Chelsea may be a work in progress under Maurizio Sarri, but with a squad rich in talent you'd expect them to get better as time goes on. Eden Hazard, Jorginho, Willian, Pedro, N'golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic on paper represent better quality than what United have at their disposal at the moment. An exciting next few months look to be in store for Chelsea.

Coming into this season, Spurs have been a team many have seem to have forgotten about. This is most likely due to their lack of activity in the transfer window. However, when taking consistency and good defensive acumen into account Spurs should be right up there alongside Liverpool and City.

The North Londoners have finished in the top three for the past three seasons and let's not forget that at one point in 2018 they had collected more points than any other team in the league. Even more impressively, this happened while they took on a gruesome run of fixtures which included matches against Arsenal, Liverpool, Man United and Juventus.

At the moment with the current atmosphere around not only Manchester United but also Jose Mourinho, that predicted third place finish let alone a spot in next season's Champions League looks highly impossible.