The Red Devils have won two, drawn one, and lost three of their league fixtures this campaign - precisely the start Moyes got off to after replacing Sir Alex Ferguson.
After a stuttering start, Moyes won eight of his next 13 Premier League games until the New Year and only lost two - the sort of response that Ten Hag will want to see from his players.
Moyes won two, drew one, and lost three of his first six games - exactly what Ten Hag has done
Encouragingly, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer had seven points after six games in 2020-21 but eventually led them to second that season
He can take encouragement from the fact that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer also had seven points at the same stage of the 2020-21 season before leading United to second.
United were behind within three minutes against Tottenham when Micky van de Ven charged through half the United team to set up Brennan Johnson.
Things got worse minutes before half-time when captain Bruno Fernandes was shown a straight red card for a high tackle on James Maddison - a decision that has courted controversy.
Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke put the nails in the coffin with their second-half goals and in truth Spurs could have had more after peppering Andre Onana's goal with 24 shots.
United have sunk to 12th in the Premier League table and have only found the net five times in six games.
Gary Neville told Sky Sports: 'The Man United fans boo the ref but that's not even half the story. The big story was that first half. They have chosen to put in their very worst performance.
'It was a disgusting performance in effort and quality, and a lot of questions to answer from that group in the next week.
'It's one of the worst performances I have seen under Ten Hag – and that's saying something. Awful, atrocious, disgusting, it was all those things in the first half.
'The pressure is going to get ramped up this week – it's going to be brutal. It has been a bad day for Ten Hag, really bad.'
Fellow pundit Jamie Redknapp added: 'I've watched a lot of performances when managers suddenly lose their jobs, and that's the sort of performance that gets the manager the sack.
'When your club are actively looking for another manager, you're in a massively untenable position because the players know that you're not the man. You cannot keep the manager after looking for other managers. They're playing like they're lost.'