Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag should alter Barcelona tactical plan after Luke Shaw display vs Leeds

No one can accuse Erik ten Hag of not having guts.

In his short six months at Manchester United he has won a game of chicken with the biggest ego in the game, hardly played the captain of the club, put his reputation on the line in signing the players he wants, repeatedly picked risky starting XIs with players out of position and if nothing else he took the job in the first place! Becoming the captain of a sinking ship in your first big career move could have been a death sentence.

But Ten Hag has plugged the holes, bailed out the water, steered into smoother tides and finally, after 10 long years, got United heading in the right direction once again.

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Ten Hag has repeatedly made bold and high-risk decisions but practically every single one has worked a treat. United have been exponentially better without Cristiano Ronaldo sulking about the place, every signing has had a positive impact and at times he has made Luke Shaw look like the second coming of Franz Beckenbauer.

Even when Harry Maguire, Victor Lindelof and Lisandro Martinez have been available, Ten Hag has trusted Shaw to play in the heart of defence after the natural left-back told the manager he felt he could fill in there when options were depleted. He's done that and then some.

He has played there five times, kept three clean sheets and only conceded a Jack Grealish header he was nowhere near and a goal against Everton that was all on David de Gea. All five games were won.

The latest came on Sunday when United managed to finally get the better of Leeds United after a feisty doubleheader. It wasn't plain sailing, though. Ten Hag had named an unusually rotated team