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Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand has criticized Erik ten Hag for an absence of tactical organisation, alleging that the supervisor is bringing out the worst in a few of his gamers.
The retired centre-back expressed his outrage after Man United drew 2-2 with Liverpool on Sunday afternoon. Whereas a good end result given the calibre of the opposition, that is the third match in all competitions that Ten Hag’s aspect has didn’t win.
United’s defence appeared shaky towards their bitter rivals, with Liverpool gaining a Twenty third-minute lead when Luis Dias scored from a nook with a formidable scissor kick.
Lapses of focus on the again and an absence of marking seem like reoccurring themes for United’s defence, with the staff permitting an unmarked Cole Palmer to attain from a nook on the demise of their earlier match which resulted in a painful, last-gasp 4-3 defeat to Chelsea.
In fact, United have additionally skilled inconsistency up entrance, not taking a single shot within the first half earlier than ramping up their assault after the half-time break.
The struggling staff’s inconsistency has not gone unnoticed, with membership legend Rio Ferdinand making his emotions identified on supervisor Ten Hag.
For Ferdinand, it has turn into more and more troublesome to find out what model of play Ten Hag has adopted on the membership, if any.
“I mentioned after the sport if kamikaze, open sesame, no management of the sport soccer is what we’re in search of, he has it nailed on and is doing an ideal job at it as a result of that’s what we’re taking part in,” Ferdinand commented on the Vibe with 5 podcast.
He added that he doesn’t really feel that United’s in depth damage considerations are a viable excuse for the chaos that has been witnessed on the pitch, explaining that different groups hit with an identical quantity of accidents nonetheless play with a definite model of soccer.
The 2007/08 UEFA Champions League winner additionally expressed his view that Ten Hag’s “kamikaze” soccer has introduced out the worst in gamers corresponding to Casemiro.
“Open transition soccer with huge areas round him, in that midfield at occasions one other midfielder is 20 yards away. That by no means occurred at Actual Madrid so that you don’t see his worst traits which is his mobility, identical with Kobbie Mainoo, so that you do issues with a construction so that you don’t see that,” Ferdinand defined.
Whereas Casemiro has struggled to duplicate his scintillating kind from final season, Ferdinand makes a legitimate level, given Casemiro’s historical past as a holding midfielder who seldom operates in a complicated place upfield.
Regardless of nonetheless being within the working for the FA Cup title, United’s season continues to look bleaker as their probabilities of securing a top-four spot are withering away. In actual fact, with the likes of West Ham United and Newcastle United respiration down their necks, one wonders whether or not Ten Hag’s staff can be taking part in European soccer in any respect subsequent season.
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