THE PREMIER LEAGUE IS BACK. Hull City (-800 to be relegated) have shut out Manchester United. Hull’s shape was well-disciplined and they made hardly any mistakes, capitalizing on the set pieces they earned. They also had a few solid chances from open-play, so it’s not a smash-and-grab by any means. Now for United. That was an absolutely DIABOLICAL performance. In the first half, they could not play progressive passes through the midfield. Andrey Santos and Tielemans were awful. Bruno Fernandes played wayyy too far forward, and couldn’t be arsed to try and get on the ball. They continued to play lofted passes to wingers with no midfielders making late runs into the box to target with cutbacks or crosses. I am simply unsure what the plan was. Then, in the second half, they had most of the ball, but created near to nothing. Harry Maguire kept venturing forward for some reason, and still looked like their best attacker. Bruno continued to avoid the ball until the final 5 minutes where he dropped to near the halfway line just to spray diagonal passes to Shaw. Rashford was a bright spot when he came on, but again, there were no players arriving in the box to which he could pass to create a chance. Overall, one team cared about the game and one clearly didn’t respect the opponent. The team that cared won.