Erik ten Hag has admitted Manchester United misplaced ‘perception’ after conceding an early purpose within the membership’s 3-0 defeat to Tottenham.
Brennan Johnson scored inside three minutes for the North Londoners at Previous Trafford, with Spurs dominating the opening exchanges.
Bruno Fernandes’ first-half crimson card compounded a depressing first 45 minutes for the Pink Devils, who conceded twice extra after the break as Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke obtained on the scoresheet for Spurs.
The defeat continued a poor begin to the season for Manchester United, who languish in twelfth within the desk and have scored simply as soon as in three residence fixtures at Previous Trafford.
It’s three video games with out a win for Ten Hag, who’s coming below growing stress amid an absence of progress below his administration. The Dutchman criticised his facet’s defending for the opening purpose and admits the degrees of his workforce are ‘not ok’.
“To concede a purpose after two or three minutes like that, it did one thing to our perception. Completely pointless,” Ten Hag mentioned talking to BBC Match of the Day.
“To concede a purpose like this, the [opposing] centre-half stepping in and passing the entire workforce over the precise facet after which the winger tapping in on the far submit. Similar mistake as within the midweek towards Twente, it must be stopped within the first second.
“From that second on we have been careworn on the ball. We couldn’t discover the triangles or the switches, we had some good moments, however from that second we couldn’t get a foothold. And we will do higher than that. Even after such a mistake from us we should always keep calm.
“We had possibilities and our moments to get again within the sport, with Joshua Zirkzee and Alejandro Garnacho once we nonetheless had 11 gamers after which after the crimson card too we had moments.
Ten Hag: I don’t suppose it was a crimson card
“We had our possibilities earlier than half-time and within the second half with 10 males we had possibilities as effectively. It positively had an impression on the sport. I don’t suppose it was a crimson card.”
“First we’ve to take care of this and present resilience. This isn’t ok. We’ve to simply accept this and get higher. Deal with the subsequent sport and do issues higher than we did as we speak.”
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