Erik ten Hag defends style of play and says Man Utd did 'very good' against Liverpool | B206BY8 | 2024-04-10 16:08:01
Erik ten Hag has as soon as once more defended Manchester United's gameplan in matches and believes they did 'excellent' in Sunday's 2-2 draw towards Liverpool.
The Pink Devils seemed like they have been heading for a walloping within the first half at Previous Trafford as they did not muster a shot on aim (for the primary time since October 2015), while Luis Diaz netted with considered one of Liverpool's 15 efforts.
But United hit back shortly after the restart because of a shocking long-range objective from Bruno Fernandes and then took the lead massively towards the run of play by way of a delightful finish from Kobbie Mainoo.
Nonetheless Liverpool racked up possibilities, hitting United on the break at will, and grabbed a point late on when Harvey Elliott was introduced down contained in the box and Mohamed Salah converted the resulting spot-kick.
United conceded 28 shots in the match despite escaping with a draw and have now given up 253 photographs because the turn of the yr.
Liverpool had loads of opportunities on the break, with Ten Hag establishing his aspect to encourage an end-to-end recreation, and the United boss has defended the strategy, insisting that few of the transitions his aspect gave up on Sunday have been harmful.
Asked if he will hold persisting with a transition recreation after one other leaky display, Ten Hag hit again: 'Its clear once you play Chelsea, whenever you play Liverpool, will probably be a transition recreation.
'As a result of they are prime at it, each groups, and each groups additionally need to play they usually depart area for counters and I assumed there were completely moments where we might have executed higher reactions in the transitions, the defence transitions.
'But normally we did excellent. We conceded solely objectives from two set performs.
'In our transition we might have finished even better. As an example, Garnacho with Bruno, I don't know if the cross needed to come earlier or the timing from the run was too fast.
'And then already after a few minutes we should always have taken the lead.'
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On the draw, he added: 'Very combined feelings. On one aspect, I'm disenchanted that we now have dropped seven points in one week, after being in profitable positions, but we have now in charge ourselves for making stupid mistakes.
'On the opposite aspect, I am very proud. You see how we are enhancing and the potential of this squad is superb. I'm proud.
'In decisive areas, we have been dropping battles, especially with younger players, we weren't assured to win them [duels]. We encouraged [them] in the second half to do better they usually stepped up.'
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