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Former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson once said that "attack wins you games, but defence wins you titles." The problem is, without reliable goal scorers, a team will never be in a position to put the second part of the theory to the test, and no team has consistently failed to adhere to Ferguson's maxim for success more than his old club.
If you want to drill down into the detail of United's recurring shortcomings, you will find many reasons for their inability to mount a serious challenge for the Premier League over the past decade, but sometimes, a simple answer can be found underneath an avalanche of statistics and data.