Erik Ten Hag Criticises Manchester United’s Mentality

Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag questioned his gamers’ mentality and declared that they didn’t play with most effort of their 1-1 draw in opposition to FC Twente of their Europa League group stage sport on Wednesday.

“You noticed it was the sport of their life,” Ten Hag mentioned afterward. “They fought for each yard and we did not. And 99 per cent just isn’t sufficient, it’s important to give 100 per cent.”

“You need to kill the sport, it’s important to end it off. We’re main 1-0 after which there may be coming an environment in a staff. We deliver the sport till the top however it’s important to go for the second aim and then you definately kill the sport.”

“You noticed there was an excellent spirit within the Twente staff, you might see after the draw, how they have fun, what it meant to them, they have been on the pitch.”

United had taken the lead within the first half by means of Christian Eriksen, however failed to manage the remainder of the sport and allowed Twente’s Sam Lammers to equalise after 68 minutes.

“We will not permit them a state of affairs with the equaliser the place one participant, the correct again from Twente, is dribbling over the entire midfield with out being stopped.”

“We’re very bold and when you’ve got ambition it’s important to carry out, to show the purpose and particularly as we speak second half I believe we have been too easy-going, too complacent. We did not deliver it over the road and as a staff, it’s important to ship this.”

Ten Hag was so pissed off along with his aspect’s efficiency in opposition to the Dutch aspect that he took the uncommon step of overtly criticising them

“I believe usually the mentality is excellent from this staff. I noticed in lots of video games how excessive our work charge is and that’s usually excellent.”

“However as we speak I’ve some criticism. However it’s not solely the staff that has to look within the mirror as nicely, I’m a part of it. We should always have acted totally different. Particularly second half.”

“You need to kill the sport, particularly if you already know we have now some issues with scoring objectives and when you have a aim you must be constant in your sport.”

United had hoped for a profitable begin to their Europa League marketing campaign, particularly as their subsequent two video games in competitions are troublesome fixtures away at FC Porto and Fenerbahce

“It’s the primary sport within the Europa League, it’s essential you get a win,” Ten Hag mentioned. “I’m not considering on this second a couple of draw being much less damaging within the first sport, I’m solely interested by the efficiency, what we have now to enhance and the place we have now to be extra constant. It’s about constructing good constructions, creating probabilities to kill groups off.”

“We’ve to construct and tomorrow we have now to maintain going. Tonight was not ok; we must always have gained. We stored the opponent alive and we didn’t end it off after we went 1-0 up, that’s not good, we all know this and we have now to study from this. We’ve to be safer, we have now to search for extra moments the place we are able to dominate the ball and velocity up the sport to go for the second aim.”