Erik ten Hag mentioned Manchester United haven’t been a disaster membership this season — regardless of unfavorable headlines and a string of dangerous outcomes — after two Scott McTominay targets secured a 2-1 Outdated Trafford win in opposition to Chelsea.
United received convincingly regardless of Marcus Rashford’s demotion to the substitutes’ bench, and the victory strikes Ten Hag’s staff to inside three factors of reigning champions Manchester Metropolis, who’re fourth after a 1-0 loss at Aston Villa.
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However with Ten Hag dropping Rashford and Anthony Martial following their poor performances in Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at Newcastle United, the United supervisor rejected strategies that his membership had been in disaster in current weeks.
“Disaster? Not for us,” Ten Hag mentioned. “We’re on a journey, we preserve calm and consider within the course of. We all know what we’ve got to construct and we do not get distracted by criticism round us. I do not care in regards to the noise. After we stick collectively, have the proper angle, we’ve got the performances to gather factors.
“You see how we received factors — we dominated our opponent with possession and that is how we wish to play.”
United had 28 pictures — 9 on course — as they dominated Mauricio Pochettino’s staff at Outdated Trafford. And though Cole Palmer’s Forty fourth-minute aim cancelled out McTominay’s first-half opener, the United midfielder restored the house staff’s lead and claimed the win with a second-half header.
“In the long run we received, however we may have made life simpler for ourselves,” Ten Hag mentioned. “We may have scored 3 times within the first half-hour.
“We all know we aren’t shortly glad and completely satisfied as a result of we all the time wish to do higher and put issues proper. However I’m more than happy with the variety of possibilities we created.”
United host Bournemouth at Outdated Trafford of their subsequent match on Saturday.