Erik 10 Hag urged he was not fretted about his Manchester United future regardless of a “very poor” effectivity in a 3-0 residence 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 higher than the second-half targets from Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke after Bruno Fernandes noticed pink late within the preliminary length.
A 2nd straight 3-0 residence group loss left United in twelfth location with 7 elements from 6 video video games, having truly racked up simply 5 targets, and the stress is at the moment improve on Ten Hag as soon as extra after he made it by means of 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 fascinated about this. I believe all of us made collectively this determination to remain collectively, as an possession, as a management group in the summertime.
“Also we made the choice from a transparent evaluate what we have now 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 can take a while, due to how the (switch) window went, some gamers late in like (Manuel) Ugarte, additionally we have now to make some enchancment within the organisation, we nonetheless must take care of 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 making an attempt a tackle, United appeared disorganised, fairly second-rate, and lucky to only be 1-0 down.
Johnson’s opener adopted Micky van de Ven was permitted to run practically the scale of the pitch previous to settling for his demonstrator to the touch residence– 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 have been no good however we have been nonetheless alive, we had additionally our possibilities, however then there may be the pink card…
“Of course (we will bounce again). There is at all times a brand new recreation, it is going to be a brand new day. It is apparent it’s a must to study as a crew.
“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 another inquest, this was an enormous end result for Tottenham, that had a sluggish starting to the interval but have truly at the moment gained 4 straight in all opponents.
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 harm.
“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.”
