Erik ten Hag has bemoaned Manchester United’s ‘unacceptable’ defending as his aspect drew 1-1 with FC Twente within the Europa League.
United have been held to a draw at Outdated Trafford of their Europa League opener, as Ten Hag’s former group hit an equaliser towards the run of play to degree.
The Crimson Devils had been in charge of the sport and led by Christian Eriksen’s excellent strike, although Twente discovered a route again into the competition with a shock equaliser.
Sam Lammers surging run carried him by a succession of Manchester United challenges, earlier than the house aspect briefly regained possession. Nonetheless, Eriksen’s error noticed him robbed of the ball and Lammers charged in on aim to fireside previous Andre Onana at his close to submit.
After a irritating goalless draw at Crystal Palace within the Premier League on the weekend, Ten Hag criticised his aspect for holding Twente ‘alive’ within the recreation and never killing off the tie.
“We stored them alive, we have been 1-0 up, controlling the sport. You must be constant and maintain going within the second half, we dropped the extent and gave the aim away,” he stated at his post-match press convention.
“We didn’t end it off, we needed to go for the second aim and they also [FC Twente] keep alive and we get punished with a mistake from ourselves. We’re very pissed off, yeah.”
Ten Hag hits out at unacceptable Twente equaliser
Ten Hag hit out at his group’s defending for the Dutch aspect’s equaliser, admitting it was unacceptable that Lammers dribble by ‘virtually the entire pitch’ with out being stopped.
“The aim, it’s [a] group [mistake], a participant of Twente can dribble by virtually the entire pitch, or half the pitch, with out stopping. That’s not acceptable, we are able to’t give a aim away like this. We’ve seen, once more, it’s important to maintain going for the entire recreation; as soon as you’re 1-0 up it’s important to maintain going and go for the second [goal].”
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