Man Utd's David de Gea called 'brave man' as he stepped up for admirable interview

David de Gea has been at the forefront of all the criticism raining down upon Manchester United right now.

Even before a ball had been kicked in the Premier League this season, serious questions were being asked of De Gea’s ability to play the kind of possession-based football that Erik ten Hag demands.

Would United‘s number one have the ball-playing chops to kickstart moves from his own penalty area, bypass presses with accurate long balls and make quick decisions under pressure with the ball at his feet?

Well, it really does feel like a case of ‘so far, so poor,’ from the Spanish shot-stopper as he’s started his 12th season at Old Trafford in truly alarming form.

De Gea looked incredibly uncomfortable delivering Ten Hag’s style of play during the opening 2-1 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion, dropping a performance so shaky that it was slammed in disasterclass ‘highlights’.

However, things went from bad to worse during the humiliating 4-0 loss to Brentford on Saturday evening with De Gea not only extending his ball-playing woes, but also coming undone from a shot-stopping perspective too.

Even when De Gea is at his most vulnerable with the ball at his feet, you can usually still rely on him to pull off five, six or seven world-class saves, but even his finest talent seemed blunted at the Brentford Community Stadium.

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That’s because it was a terrible error from the ex-Atletico Madrid man that got the party started for the Bees as he allowed Josh Dasilva’s speculative effort to squirm underneath his body.

Then, De Gea more than played a role in Brentford’s sophomore strike as he threw Christian Eriksen under the bus with a poor pass