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Erik ten Hag insists he has had no second ideas about taking the Manchester United’s supervisor’s job as his crew prepares for tomorrow’s Premier League conflict with Arsenal.
“I don’t remorse being right here for one second,” he mentioned on the pre-match press convention.
“It is a large membership. You don’t know the challenges you need to face till you might be in it. However I wished this problem and haven’t had one second after I remorse that call. I’m actually pleased to be right here.”
Talking of the progress this season, he mentioned:
“Within the first yr I might say it was formation. We performed to our ranges, possibly we over-performed.
“On this one we haven’t and I do know why, however we’re nonetheless in an FA Cup ultimate and that may be a nice achievement.”
Requested his opinion about these calling for him to be sacked, the supervisor mentioned:
“I see some feedback, both they don’t have any information of soccer or they don’t have any information about managing a soccer crew.
“I believe there are a lot of individuals who see the issues and they’re affected person.”
The boss was additionally requested about crew cohesion after Monday night time’s stunning 4-0 defeat to Crystal Palace.
“If I take a look at the issues we’ve got confronted and all of the accidents we’ve got had, in virtually each sport the gamers have nonetheless fought. There was nice crew spirit,” he replied.
“However not on Monday night time – and that’s the reason I used to be dissatisfied.
“I used to be actually dissatisfied and the gamers have been dissatisfied with themselves. There was a collective failure. However in all the opposite video games, we’ve got fought for one another, confirmed good crew spirit – and I don’t have any doubt about this.
“The gamers combat and there’s a good crew spirit. I believe the followers have seen this. They noticed in opposition to Brentford how we fought. We didn’t play effectively however we fought and stayed within the sport.
“At Chelsea, it was an awesome sport, we performed superb and we fought. Towards Liverpool, we needed to adapt the backline as a result of Raphael [Varane] and Jonny [Evans] dropped out, however we fought and acquired an excellent consequence.”
United’s match in opposition to Arsenal kicks off at Previous Trafford tomorrow at 4.30pm.
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