Erik ten Hag has taken a swipe at Jamie Carragher after the Liverpool legend ridiculed Manchester United’s techniques.
While analysing their 2-1 defeat to Fulham over the weekend, Carragher criticised United’s peculiar defensive setup, noting that they have been attempting to press excessive whereas concurrently deploying a low block. “They defend like a team I have never seen before,” he stated.
Speaking forward of the Red Devils’ FA Cup conflict with Nottingham Forest on Wednesday, Ten Hag bit again at Carragher, saying: “First of all, some analysts are very goal of their feedback, superb recommendation, some are very subjective.
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“Jamie Carragher, from the primary second on has criticised, and now he desires to make his level. Probably within the first half an hour, yeah, he had some extent. Fulham, of their midfield arrange, was a bit of bit stunning after which we now have to search out the options.
”After half an hour, we found the solutions, but I was not pleased with the performance with the defending, especially on the left side. They came out, especially in the first half an hour, several times on the left side, and that can’t happen.”
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He added: “That has to do with willingness, spirit, passion and that was, in the previous weeks, very good for this team and therefore, we won football games. I know footballers are not robots, sometimes they have bad, days. But it can’t be, it’s unacceptable, we have to do better tomorrow but in the weeks before we have done very well.”
United’s defeat to Fulham was their tenth within the league this season, and their fifteenth in all competitions. Ten Hag has usually been accused of failing to ascertain an observable footballing philosophy at Old Trafford, and their efficiency on Saturday did not precisely quell these issues.
Running by way of a number of clips of the sport on Sky Sports, Carragher stated: “I want to highlight [Kobbie] Mainoo, who has been fantastic since he came in, but the problem I have – it’s not a criticism of him – what are his instructions before the game? This is straight from kick-off, he is not sure whether he should close down the holding midfield player or looking at the number 10, he’s caught, straight from kick-off – you should know your jobs straight from kick-off and that’s down to the coaching staff.
”Twenty seconds into the sport towards Fulham, it has been the issue for Manchester United all season, there’s house between the again 4 and the midfield. We go to the rationale why they’re poor defensively and might’t address counter-attacks, they have no tempo on the again and an absence of legs in midfield.
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”People say: ‘there’s no patterns of play at Manchester United, how do they play and what’s the philosophy?’ I’ll tell you why there’s no patterns of play and why they get done on the counter-attack, the positions they find themselves in. When Varane is on the ball, you’ve got you right-back, he can’t receive a pass, Mainoo – your central midfield player – he’s on the last line, that can’t be right – it’s not right.
“Bruno Fernandes, on the final line, enjoying like a striker, he is a quantity 10, Victor Lindelof cannot obtain the ball, the gamers cannot obtain the ball within the positions they choose. There’s an enormous downside for Manchester United once they’re on the ball – what number of occasions do you see gamers working again 40 yards in the direction of purpose.”