MAN UNITED IS FEELING HEAT

Temperatures soared in England on Saturday and no one was feeling the heat more than Manchester United’s latest manager,

Erik ten Hag.

On another humiliating day for a massive club in freefall, United conceded four goals in the first 35 minutes and was swept aside in a 4-0 loss at Brentford in the Premier League.

It’s two matches, two losses so far for Ten Hag, the Dutchman who arrived from Ajax in a bold offseason appointment as United’s fifth manager in nine years and looked shellshocked in the dugout as the goals poured in at Brentford Community Stadium.

It was understandable, too. United had never gone into halftime of a Premier League match trailing 4-0. Never before in the Premier League had United conceded so many goals so quickly.

There were so many individual mistakes — goalkeeper David de Gea let a weak shot dribble underneath him for the first goal,

Christian Eriksen was tackled inside his own box prior to the second, and Brentford had two free headers at a corner for the third — that Ten Hag probably wanted to change most of his team at halftime.

He made three halftime substitutions, with Cristiano Ronaldo — back in United’s team after an offseason when he pushed to leave the club — staying on and playing the full match. He wore a frustrated look throughout.

More soccer

Meggie Dougherty Howard’s goal in the 23rd minute was enough to give the Orlando Pride (4-5-6) a 1-0 win over the San Diego Wave (75-4) in NWSL play at Torero Stadium.

• San Diego Loyal (156-4) allowed a first half goal in its first trip to Alabama that resulted in a 1-0 loss against host Birmingham Legion FC (13-6-5) to halt a five-match winning streak.

Juan Agudelo scored for the homeside in the Week 23 USL Championship match.

• Robert Lewandowski endured a frustrating debut for Barcelona after Rayo Vallecano earned a scoreless draw at Camp Nou in their Spanish league opener.

Lewandowski and his new teammates were kept well in check by Rayo.

• Neymar and Paris Saint-germain’s high-powered attack put on another impressive display in a 5-2 win over Montpellier in the French league. Kylian Mbappe also opened his account but missed a penalty in his return from a groin injury.

Tennis

Two-time champion Simona Halep of Romania advanced to the National Bank Open’s final, beating

Jessica Pegula of the United States 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Halep will face Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia, 6-4, 7-6 (7) winner over 14th-seeded

Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic in the night semifinal.

• Eighth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz of Poland beat fourth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 in the National Bank Open semifinals.

Hockey

Wyatt Kaiser and Carter Mazur each scored twice and the United States beat winless Austria 7-0 to improve to 3-0 in group play in the world junior championship. Matt Coronato, Red Savage and Sasha Pastujov also scored for the defending champion Americans.

• San Jose Sharks defenseman Nikolai Knyzhov will miss the first few months of the season with a torn right Achilles tendon. General Manager Mike Grier said Knyzhov got hurt while participating in off-ice training.

Also

Notre Dame receiver Avery Davis will miss the season after tearing a ligament in his right knee. The school also announced sophomore quarterback Tyler Buchner of San Diego will start the opener against Ohio State on Sept. 3.

• Seventeen-year-old David Popovici of Romania became the youngest swimmer to break the world record in the men’s 100-meter freestyle. He beat the mark set more than 13 years ago in the same pool in Rome. Popovici touched in 46.86 seconds at the European championships to top the record of 46.91 set by Brazil’s Cesar Cielo.