Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag blamed an absence of ‘perception’ after going behind early for his facet’s 3-0 defeat at dwelling to Tottenham Hotspur.
Ange Postecoglou’s facet ran out undisputed winners on Sunday having put in a single hell of a efficiency at Outdated Trafford, the place the hosts needed to play the second half a person down after Bruno Fernandes was despatched off.
Tottenham took the lead inside three minutes when Micky van de Ven sprinted 70 yards proper by means of United’s midfield and defence earlier than squaring for Brennan Johnson to faucet in. The Crimson Devils conceded an eerily comparable objective in Wednesday’s 1-1 draw with Twente within the UEFA Europa League.
Chatting with BBC Sport after Sunday’s defeat, United boss Ten Hag criticised the mentality of his gamers after going a objective down.
“To concede a objective after two or three minutes like that, it did one thing to our perception,” he stated.
“Completely pointless. To concede a objective like this, the [opposing] centre-half stepping in and passing the entire workforce over the suitable facet after which the winger tapping in on the far put up. Identical mistake as within the midweek in opposition to Twente, it must be stopped within the first second.
“From that second on we had been confused 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 are able to do higher than that. Even after such a mistake from us we must always keep calm.
“We had possibilities and our moments to get again within the recreation, with Joshua Zirkzee and Alejandro Garnacho after we nonetheless had 11 gamers after which after the crimson card too we had moments.
“We had our possibilities earlier than half-time and within the second half with 10 males we had possibilities as nicely. It undoubtedly had an affect on the sport. I do not assume it was a crimson card.
“First we’ve got to take care of this and present resilience. This isn’t adequate. We’ve to simply accept this and get higher. Concentrate on the following recreation and do issues higher than we did at present.”
