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Erik ten Hag has insisted he’s not in any respect fearful about his Manchester United future, regardless of the facet’s humiliating loss by the hands of Tottenham Hotspur.
United suffered a 3-0 defeat, courtesy of objectives from Brennan Johnson, Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke.
The end result has left United in twelfth place within the Premier League, with simply seven factors from their first six top-flight video games of the season.
The Pink Devils additionally at the moment have a -3 objective distinction.
The style of the loss towards Spurs and particularly simply how poor the efficiency was, left loads to be desired and consequently, stress is as soon as once more mounting on Ten Hag as uncertainty over his place at Previous Trafford looms.
After the ultimate whistle, the Dutchman spoke to reporters and was requested about his future.
He stated, “No, not fascinated with this. All of us made a togetherness, this determination, to remain collectively as an possession, as a management group in the summertime. And in addition we made the choice from a transparent evaluate, what we now have to enhance as an organisation and the way we wish to assemble a squad. They’re all decision-making in togetherness.”
“However we additionally knew it can take a while due to how the window went, some gamers had been late in like Ugarte, we now have to combine him now. Additionally, we needed to make some enhancements in organisation, we nonetheless must take care of some accidents, affect gamers. We’ll get higher there, we’d like a while.”
“We’re all there on one web page, one boat, collectively, the possession, the management group, the workers, the gamers’ group as effectively, so I don’t have that concern. After all, there’s all the time a brand new sport, there can be a brand new day and it’s additionally apparent it’s important to be taught as a group.”
Spurs took the lead simply three minutes in after Johnson tapped within the ball after a superb run from inside his personal half by Micky van de Ven.
Ten Hag stated about this, “It was clear, we began the sport very poorly.”
“If you concede the objective like we did, within the third minute and once we really outnumbered [Tottenham] and concede a objective from a counter assault the place the centre half is crossing the entire pitch after which carry on the objective line, a cross in after which on the again publish, tapping in.”
“That was our sport plan. We should always defend that space superb in the remainder defence and the defensive transition as a result of we knew the power.”
“And from that time on, we’re very traumatic within the sport and in possession we didn’t discover a spare man within the swap, unhealthy decision-making, we couldn’t hold the ball, not aggressive sufficient or to mess around with third-man actions, so many ball losses and we didn’t get the press proper.”
“The primary half-hour was no good. However we had been nonetheless alive, we had our probabilities with Zirkzee and Garnacho hitting the publish, then you may all the time come again. After which the purple card, we had been downsized and that had a huge impact on the sport.”
“Can’t occur in 4 days now we now have twice a defender of the opponent who can dribble by the entire park and never be stopped. This stuff [should be] inconceivable in prime soccer. You’ll be able to’t make such errors.”
United’s subsequent task will see them journey to Portugal to face Porto within the Europa League on Thursday.
Characteristic picture Carl Recine through Getty Photographs
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