Tuesday, August 15, 2023 – 3:43 PM
ABU DHABI, 15th August, 2020 (WAM) — Manchester United coach Eric Ten Hag admitted that his team was not at its best during its opening match of the new English Premier League season, in which it beat Wolverhampton 1-0 yesterday evening, Monday, at the end of the first round matches. with the competition.
“We could have done better, but we are very happy with the victory,” Ten Hag said.
He added, “There is no easy match in the English Premier League. Wolverhampton is a strong competitor, and we hope to perform better in the next match.”
The match reaffirmed the big problem that Manchester United suffered during the preparation period for the current season, which is the inability to score the opponent’s net.
Despite the participation of striker Marcus Rashford from the start of the match until the 88th minute, and the arrival of Jadon Sancho and attacking midfielder Christian Eriksen in the middle of the second half, the United attackers were unable to score, and the only goal of the match came with the signing of French defender Raphael Varane in the 76th minute.
Manchester United had recently contracted with young Danish striker Rasmus Hollund from Italian Atalanta to solve this problem, but the player is still awaiting his recovery from the injury he suffered during the preparation period with Atalanta to start his participation with Manchester United.
Yesterday, Manchester United completed the strong start of the big teams in the English Premier League this season, as all the teams nominated to compete for the first places achieved victory in this round, with the exception of a valuable draw between Chelsea and Liverpool in the summit match in this opening round.
This round witnessed a good goal score of 28 goals, with an average of 2.8 goals per game, noting that all matches witnessed scoring goals, and no match ended in a goalless draw.
And the kick-off in the season was 3-0 for Manchester City against Burnley, to start “City” the journey to successfully defend its title in a round that witnessed 7 victories, the largest of which was for Newcastle over Aston Villa 5-1.
The Arsenal, Manchester United and Newcastle teams occupied the second to fourth places, respectively, behind “City” at the end of last season, and these teams come with Chelsea and Liverpool as the strongest candidates to compete with Manchester City for the title this season.
And Arsenal achieved a 2-1 victory over Nottingham Forest, while Chelsea and Liverpool shared their match points together, to be a good start for each of them as well, after they met together very early in the season.
Asim Al-Khouli / Ahmed Zahran
2023-08-15 11:46:59
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