Manchester United have two ways to fix goalscoring problems

It has been a frustrating week for Manchester United at Old Trafford, 180 minutes of football producing 49 shots but just one goal, Scott McTominay's face-saving winner against Omonia Nicosia.

United had a chance to again save their blushes in stoppage time on Sunday, but this time Marcus Rashford missed the target in the dying embers of the goalless draw with Newcastle.

That was the first draw of Erik ten Hag's reign, ending the boom-or-bust cycle of the first dozen games, but nine fixtures into their Premier League campaign they are fifth in the table, an acceptable position considering how the season started.

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The goalscoring difficulties that have crept into their game recently have become an issue, however, with the narrative that chances aren't being taken and it's undoubtedly the case that if United are to make a success of this season, they have to score more goals.

Only Bournemouth in the top half of the table have scored fewer than United's 13 goals and only Bournemouth of those top 10 sides also have a negative goal difference. United's is skewed by the six conceded to Manchester City and four at Brentford, but those kinds of one-off aberrations have become a feature of this team.

Ten Hag's priority now has to be find a way to get more goals into the team. In five of the nine Premier League games this season they've scored once or less and the fact three of the four occasions they've scored more came against Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal show they've enjoyed the spaces afforded to them by better opposition.

United have found it difficult to break more defensive teams down and continue to thrive on the counter-attack,