Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ange Postecoglou has provided his help to under-fire Manchester United counterpart Erik ten Hag because the pair put together to do battle on Sunday.
Each Postecoglou and Ten Hag discover themselves going through vital scrutiny after underwhelming begins to the brand new season – tenth-placed Spurs sit forward of United solely on purpose distinction – and defeat on Sunday would undoubtedly ramp up the stress on whoever comes out on the dropping finish.
Postecoglou acknowledged the pure challenges that include managing United however pointed to Ten Hag’s silverware haul as proof that he deserves to be at this degree.
“I imply there’s all the time some supervisor underneath stress,” Postecoglou informed his pre-match press convention. “I believe there have to be a form of – what do they name a kind of spinning boards with all our faces on it and no matter it lands on? – he is the one which cops it for per week or two.
“However I believe Erik’s in an actual powerful job. He is executed very well. He retains mentioning he is gained two trophies and he has, so I do not assume that is insignificant. Everybody retains telling me that is all I’ve to do, however clearly it is not all it’s important to do as a result of if you do this then there’s extra, there’s all the time extra. So I believe he is executed a fantastic job and like I mentioned, a troublesome job and at Previous Trafford, it is powerful there.
“You have a look at their document regardless of the managers, it is nonetheless a reasonably compelling document there they usually’ve bought some actual high quality gamers. So, we had a extremely good sport there final 12 months. We ended up 2-2 and it was a cracking sport and yeah, it is one we will be prepared for.”
Spurs head to Previous Trafford searching for their first win on the crimson facet of Manchester since October 2020, when Jose Mourinho’s facet thumped Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Purple Devils 6-1.
