Man Utd 1-1 Burnley: Erik ten Hag post-match reaction

What’s your assessment to start again with your team that’s going to win in position near the end of the game and who doesn’t see the game? Yeah, the facts and we really should step up there, shouldn’t happen. It’s so necessary when you work so hard and also I think you work good together and you by over long periods you control the game. Loads of chances I saw, apart from the second part, first half where we conceded a couple of chances with good saves from Andre, but the rest of the game was all ours. And then yeah, you were in a winning position and you gave it away. I’m sorry that that has happened so much over the last few weeks, why it’s so a variation of reason. So this is this is very different to the ones before. The only thing is it’s again a penalty, while some penalties included Chelsea, Liverpool and now again, and I think it was a justified penalty. So we do it and we only have to look in the mirror in the prospective of death penalty. But if then the refereeing is consistent against Chelsea and Liverpool already we can. There were no penalties against, but the penalties for us, we don’t get them and they are not consistent. When you see the Bambisaka 2 minutes against beforehand against Coffee City called seeding a penalty with a handball and then ours from Anthony just beforehand, we don’t get the penalty and so that’s also a part of it. So it’s bad luck. But yeah, we play a role as well. We, when you put yourself in many positions, bring it over the line. Sorry, hi Eric. There there was some audible things like in the fans at substitutions and at full time. Can you understand that from the supporters? Is it a concern from you it’s just frustration, offence. But I have to to manage the team and I have of course winning games first of all and see what the game needs. And I think we needed by the time some some freshness first of all and then but also from technical wise bring a player up who can keep the ball will be who is creative. And then in the midfield you could see it was a very high intense game. It went up and down and then you see also some fatigue. And Rasmus which is a very young player and Kobe Mano which is a very young player and there we shipped and it was the right decision. You see after we we we took some benefit from it by bringing the fresh legs with Scott in a position when it’s all open. He’s very good in such situations and he can make his penetrations from there. And that also happened that we put ourselves from there in the winning position. And then the last thing we have three games, Burnley, they had days off and in that high intense game, Yeah, that’s totally logical to bring players of who are very young, who are in the first years of the Premier League and and then don’t even talk about the injury risk. Rasmus Holland had more injuries already in the course of this season, Coby Mayno also and had some too bad injuries. So I don’t want them to get injured. So I protected them as well. So there are more reasons to make the Subs, but then I understand that fans, they want to see DC also had the skills those players they are bringing so contribute to the team. I I understand that. But I have, I have to do my job and that is the right decision. Phil. There are a lot of players at this time of the season claiming it’s, you know, fatigue is you know the fatigue will be responsible for mistakes and maybe why they’re they’re struggling a bit. You know, a lot of I don’t just mean your players, a lot of players across the league and you can see that as outsiders on the physical side of it, but there’s the mental side of it as well to keep focus, to keep its own attitude to it all the time. When you’ve got young players in the side, it’s even tougher mentally for them. Is that an aspect that maybe some of your players, because they’re so fresh to it, I’ve struggled with? Is it the mental burden? That’s maybe. Sure, it’s we have some very young players and that’s why we built this club back and that takes time and we build this by bringing in young players. Rasmus Hoyland, Alejandro Carnaccio, Kobe Mano. And they are all in the first season of of a Premier League and the Premier League gets intenser year by year. We have seen the data and it’s much more intense as last season and especially when you see it over the last four or five seasons and those players have to adjust and and that takes time and I’m sorry for everyone. So I’m very impatient. But there we need patience and fans, they need patience. We built here A-Team and they need the experience and yeah you are right and they have to the mental and when you get fatigue you have to keep the focus till the end. Till also this season there was an extra fact that they do the the extra time and they are really it’s often 78910 minutes. So bringing more minutes in the game for to keep the tempo in the in the game as well. So therefore it’s very intense and more volume and that is say, a limit they have to cross and they only get it by experiences. Well, that’s the point I was trying to make that, that because you bought young players, you’re bringing in young players, that people are going to have to wait until next season, maybe the season after that before they get the benefit of what you’re actually trying to do here. That you you need the time to actually seek, seek the, the results of what you’re trying to put in place. You express it 100% good. And I think, yeah, maybe, maybe we have to do. Hey, last question, Rob, Similar about Chelsea, that you can’t judge this Chelsea team now against the Chelsea teams of the past because they’ve chosen to buy young players. Are you effectively saying the same thing about this United team that you’ve chosen to pick young players? And so the judgments against maybe great United teams of the pastor are way off the mark because they’re just not at that lovely, oh, absolutely away off the mark. But also the great Manchester United team. We forget they were also built. I have seen, I think when they had 2005, 2004, 2005, they also didn’t play that great football they were building and it takes time but everyone forgets. Even the players who are by that time in the team, they forget that they were struggling and that they needed time to progress.