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Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag claims that there will likely be no main tweaks in his midfield arrange regardless of the issues of final 12 months.
The 54 12 months outdated was closely criticised for his facet’s chaotic performances final season and the midfield struggled badly to deal with nearly any opposition.
Even towards groups like Luton City and Newport County, the Pink Devils gave up quite a few probabilities and didn’t exert any management over the center of the park because the opposition recurrently had extra possession of the ball.
In an interview with ESPN the previous Ajax supervisor was requested whether or not he would change his midfield arrange in response to criticism he confronted final 12 months.
He replied, “no, not particularly. We are going to at all times be criticised. We’re Man United, and there’s no different membership that’s criticised like Man United. You’ll at all times discover in a single recreation the place you play a foul half the place you discover deficits in our recreation.”
Ten Hag as soon as once more shifted blame from his personal techniques to accidents for the facet’s weaknesses.
“Final season, once we hadn’t the gamers obtainable and there have been no patterns and fell off, we needed to regulate our recreation mannequin as a result of each week we needed to regulate our lineup with totally different personnel. We had 33 totally different again fours. What do you suppose, that the patterns are there? I noticed the identical issues.”
The blaming of accidents was a widespread theme for Ten Hag final 12 months in post-match interviews and closely pissed off followers as he appeared oblivious to the chaotic, open nature of the soccer his facet had been taking part in, the place they might recurrently concede over 20 photographs a recreation.
The Dutchman then defended his gamers and said, “however I additionally know, and we proved it not one time however on a extra constant foundation, we are able to play very compact and we’re succesful once we can construct a basis and be very profitable. We have a look at it and analyse it.”
“We’re very succesful, and we confirmed [that] not solely within the recreation towards Metropolis. True, we achieved a really excessive stage, but in addition in lots of different video games the place we achieved excessive ranges and had a very good basis.”
When technical director Jason Wilcox joined the membership in April, he reportedly grew to become concerned within the membership’s techniques and after a 4-0 demolition by the hands of Crystal Palace, the staff performed with a considerably larger emphasis on possession. They then appeared much more compact as they received their three remaining video games, together with the cup remaining.
The freshening up of the teaching staff with Ruud van Nistelrooy and Rene Hake ought to assist Ten Hag tactically and the influence of the previous United striker has already been lauded by gamers on the membership.
Furthermore, the soccer in pre-season has already seen a extra possession-focused type, with excessive urgent. That is one thing United followers will likely be eager to see in motion versus Liverpool tonight and when the season begins in earnest towards Manchester Metropolis within the Group Protect in seven days.
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