Erik 10 Hag urged he was not fretted about his Manchester United future regardless of a “very poor” effectivity in a 3-0 house loss to Tottenham.
Spurs required simply 3 minutes to take the lead with Brennan Johnson as they brushed up United aside at Old Trafford, with the one shock being that they didn’t embrace larger than the second-half goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke after Bruno Fernandes noticed pink late within the preliminary length.
A 2nd straight 3-0 house group loss left United in twelfth location with 7 elements from 6 video video games, having truly racked up simply 5 goals, and the stress is at the moment enhance on Ten Hag as soon as extra after he made it via a summer time season analysis by the membership’s energy construction.
Asked if he was fretted his employers could possibly be having doubts, Ten Hag claimed: “No, I’m not enthusiastic about this. I believe all of us made collectively this resolution to remain collectively, as an possession, as a management group in the summertime.
“Also we made the choice from a transparent evaluation what we now have to enhance as an organisation and the way we need to assemble a squad and all of the decision-making is with togetherness.
“But we knew it’ll take a while, due to how the (switch) window went, some gamers late in like (Manuel) Ugarte, additionally we now have to make some enchancment within the organisation, we nonetheless need to cope with some accidents, additionally from some affect gamers.
“I think we will get better there. We need some time. We are all on one page or in one boat together, the ownership, the leadership group, the staff and the players group as well. I don’t have that concern.”
Even previous to Fernandes’ challenged pink card, which got here 3 minutes previous to half-time when he captured James Maddison on the leg after sliding whereas attempting a tackle, United appeared disorganised, fairly second-rate, and lucky to simply be 1-0 down.
Johnson’s opener adopted Micky van de Ven was permitted to run almost the scale of the pitch previous to settling for his demonstrator to the touch house– with mirrors of the target United acknowledged to FC Twente of their 1-1 Europa League pull in midweek.
Ten Hag confessed acknowledging so very early influenced his avid gamers’ self-confidence.
“We were very stressful in the game, bad decision-making, we couldn’t keep the ball, not aggressive enough, we didn’t get the press right,” he claimed.
“The first half-hour had been no good however we had been nonetheless alive, we had additionally our probabilities, however then there’s the pink card…
“Of course (we will bounce again). There is at all times a brand new sport, it will likely be a brand new day. It is apparent you must be taught as a workforce.
“It can’t happen twice in four days a defender can dribble through the whole team twice. You can’t make such mistakes in top football. But we will bounce back.”
While Ten Hag offers with but yet one more inquest, this was an enormous consequence for Tottenham, that had a sluggish starting to the interval but have truly at the moment received 4 straight in all rivals.
Boss Ange Postecoglou claimed: “The lads were outstanding. I thought we showed real belief and conviction in our football, we were really aggressive in everything, without the ball, with it, positive intent. It was a fantastic all-round performance.”
If there was an issue for Spurs it was that they didn’t take much more of their potentialities, presumably a suggestion that amulet Son Heung- minutes was lacking out on with damage.
“Sometimes it is just the nature of football,” Postecoglou included.
“We did have some fantastic chances and probably should have put them away but the pleasing thing for me is I got the sense the players weren’t dwelling on it and that is when it can become frustrating.”
