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LONDON — Manchester United plumbed new depths with a 4-0 capitulation at Brentford to send Erik ten Hag's team into meltdown after just two games of the Premier League season. Through a mixture of defensive ineptitude and Brentford's opportunism, United was 4-0 down at halftime for the first time in a Premier League game. Mistakes by goalkeeper David De Gea gifted the first two goals to Josh Dasilva and Mathias Jensen, Ben Mee nodded in the third at a corner and Bryan Mbeumo hit a slick fourth on the counterattack on a chastening afternoon for the visitors.
