Ten Hag down, new No 1 entry: Every Premier League manager's first game in charge ranked

Nathan Jones will be eager to get off to a good start when he takes charge of Southampton for the first time this weekend when they travel to Liverpool. A start like Unai Emery or Frank Lampard is the dream, but he would probably settle for one like Roberto De Zerbi at Anfield…

Here's how we ranked each manager's first game in charge of their current club...

19) Erik ten Hag: Man Utd 1-2 BrightonAugust 7, 2022If Ten Hag needed an illustration of the magnitude of the task ahead, this was it -the. A miserable home defeat, with Cristian Eriksen starting with a false nine, was followed by an even more miserable embarrassment at Brentford before United pulled themselves together late.

18) Thomas Frank: Brentford 0-1 Bristol CityOctober 20, 2018Frank's first game as Bees head coach was an 89th-minute loss to Bristol City after that the hosts played more than half an hour. hour with 10 men after Chris Mepham was sent off.

17) Brendan Rodgers: Watford 2-1 LeicesterMarch 3, 2019The Brendan era began with a 92nd-minute defeat at his former club Watford thanks to a late spectacle from Andre Gray after Jamie Vardy canceled Troy Deeney's early opening. 16) Patrick Vieira: Chelsea 3-0 Crystal PalaceAugust 14, 2021Vieira made his debut to be forgotten as Palace boss when his side went to Stamford Bridge and were easily dismissed by the champions of Europe at the time. He was the third manager in a row, after Frank De Boer and Roy Hodgson, to lose his first game in charge of the Eagles.

15) Steve Davis: Chelsea 3-0 WolvesOctober 8, 2022The caretaker manager took over after Wolves' 2-0 defeat at West Ham and they didn't make it best when Davis brought them back to London a week later will be swept away by Graham Potter's Chelsea.

14) Eddie Howe: Newcastle 3-3 BrentfordNovember 20, 2021It wasn't a terrible result, especially when trailing 3-2 with 15 minutes to go, when Howe presided over his first match. responsible, but Wor Eddie had to do it from his hotel room after catching a fix of 'rona.

13) Jesse Marsch: Leicester 1-0 Leeds5th March 2022Jesse Marsch hates Leicester. Leeds have been abject in losing there this season and their first game in charge there also ended in defeat, with Harvey Barnes' strike increasing the Whites' relegation fears.

12) Graham Potter: Chelsea 1-1 RB SalzburgSeptember 14, 2022Potter's first game was due to be at Fulham, but around an hour after his appointment as manager was confirmed Chelsea, the queen is dead. Potter therefore had to wait for a disappointing draw at home with the Austrians who left the Blues bottom of their Champions League group with two games less.

11) Marco Silva: Fulham 1-1 MiddlesbroughAugust 8, 2021The Cottagers were left frustrated in Silva's opener when Neil Warnock's Boro hit a late leveler to punish the hosts for wasting serval of chances to kill in the second half of the game. They made up for it in the next game by smashing five Huddersfield. 10) Mikel Arteta: Bournemouth 1-1 Arsenal saw Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang win a second-half equalizer to earn Arsenal a point on Boxing Day.

9) Steve Cooper: Nottingham Forest 1-1 MillwallSeptember 25, 2021While there was little sign of what was to come, one point apiece was a fair result in the opener of Cooper as Forest boss, with Max Lowe's lucky equalizer nullifying Matt Smith's opener for the Lions in the first half.

8) Jurgen Klopp: Tottenham 0-0 LiverpoolOctober 17, 2015"I am completely satisfied," Klopp said after watching his new team of Simon Mignolet, Alberto Moreno and Nathaniel Clyne hold the Mauricio Pochettino's men to a goalless draw at White Hart Lane. 7) Gary O'Neil: Bournemouth 0-0 WolvesAugust 31, 2022O'Neil has been placed on an interim...