Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United’s depleted squad performed a significant position of their defeat to Bayern Munich within the Champions League on Tuesday night.
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United have now crashed out of Europe altogether as Kingsley Coman’s second-half aim sealed a 1-0 win for Thomas Tuchel’s facet at Previous Trafford.
The hosts registered only one shot heading in the right direction in one other dismal efficiency below Ten Hag, though the United supervisor was with out a number of attacking choices with Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, Mason Mount and Christian Eriksen all unavailable for the sport.
Tuchel identified after Bayern’s win that United had an absence of ‘high quality and persona’ in vast areas and amongst their substitutes, which made it troublesome for Ten Hag to make any important attacking modifications within the second half.
When requested about accidents limiting his choices in assault, Ten Hag mentioned: ‘That’s clear. The gamers gave the whole lot, you noticed the spirit and, as I mentioned, I’ve to credit score the staff; massive praise for the best way they labored collectively as a staff towards this good Bayern facet.
‘However, after all, when the sport goes, you want power from the bench, and particularly within the frontline, the choices had been restricted.’
Ten Hag additionally believes the result’s an unfair reflection on United’s efficiency towards Bayern.
‘We didn’t lose at the moment within the Champions League, we misplaced it earlier than, we’ve to acknowledge that.’ Ten Hag mentioned.
‘I feel we’ve had some good performances however then additionally we made errors, particular person errors from gamers.
‘In the long run, it’s not adequate however I feel, at the moment, the efficiency was excellent once more and we didn’t should lose.’
Regardless of ending backside of Group A with 4 factors from six video games, Ten Hag insists there are many encouraging indicators from United’s Champions League marketing campaign this season
‘Soccer is all the time whenever you don’t get the factors, it’s that you’re not qualifying. It’s important to take that, as a coach and a supervisor, and you need to have a look at the performances. We had some good performances within the Champions League, with attacking soccer, however, on the finish of the day, we don’t have the factors to qualify,’ Ten Hag mentioned.
‘We have now to simply accept it and study from it. We’ve performed some good soccer within the Champions League; for instance Rasmus Hojlund scored 5 occasions and that’s an excellent efficiency, and he has to take that perception into the Premier League. I feel that counts for the entire staff.
‘We all know we wish to be extra constant and me as a supervisor, I’ve to enhance the staff, the staff’s progress, and I’ve to information them, and the gamers should take obligations, so we’ve to do this collectively. We wish to be again once more within the Champions League.
‘We all the time have strain. We wish to win each sport. You may have seen at the moment, towards one of many favourites for the Champions League, we go and provides the whole lot to win the sport. There was the idea. We had that earlier than the sport, you’ve seen the spirit of the staff on the pitch and there will probably be at Anfield on Sunday.’
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