Erik ten Hag expects a considerably additional motivated Manchester United from Liverpool on Monday night time. The Dutch supervisor thinks that the mindset of his gamers in the last two online games in certain has been down below average.
United shed their initial league match at home 1-2 to Brighton & Hove Albion. A new small adopted past week with the 4- defeat to Brentford. United are very last in the Leading League due to two defeats. Liverpool are in twelfth put right after two rounds.
“Immediately after every single match you have to examine what went well and what went improper,” Ten Hag stated at a push convention ahead of the recreation against Liverpool on Friday. “A whole lot has absent erroneous in the last couple of duels. But there is no need to converse about the information if the angle of the players is previously poor.”
“You can speak about our football philosophy or our tactics, but first you have to do the easy factors right,” explained Ten Hag. “And that starts with the right mindset, the mentality of a fighter. I have not witnessed it, not even from the very first moment. You have to give each individual match from the initial minute.”
‘Ronaldo is section of our plans’
Cristiano Ronaldo has been connected for weeks to a departure from United, but for now the Portuguese nonetheless performs at Outdated Trafford. 10 Hag had previously been important of Ronaldo, but stressed on Friday that the striker is not the only player who desires to do better.
“I never seriously recognize why there has been so a great deal talk about him this week,” stated 10 Hag. “It was the full squad that failed, like Ronaldo. He is however element of our options.”
Despite the very poor success, 10 Hag eagerly awaits the duel with rival Liverpool. “We know that a match versus Liverpool is always particular. But performing nicely commences with ourselves. The players have to respect the agreements on the pitch and do the job really hard. If we do that, we can increase our self confidence.”
