Manchester United’s wasteful win over Wigan shows just how much they still need to improve
Pep Guardiola knows what it is like, Roberto Mancini and Manuel Pellegrini too. does not, and that represents hope of salvaging silverware from a sorry season. Three times in the last 11 years, Wigan had upset the odds and ejected a Manchester club from the FA Cup. Each was Manchester City, each a better team than Ten Hag’s are now. But they averted embarrassment with an emphatic performance, if a relatively narrow scoreline, to set up a tie where defeat would be a still greater
