Erik ten Hag singles out four players after Man Utd’s embarrassing defeat to Brighton
Manchester United slipped to their third defeat of the brand new Premier League season on Saturday, with Brighton securing a 3-1 win at Old Trafford to embarrass the Red Devils
Erik ten Hag has praised the performances of Hannibal Mejbri, Diogo Dalot, Marcus Rashford and Rasmus Hojlund in Manchester United’s defeat to Brighton.
The Red Devils had been performed off the park by the Seagulls, to go away them 13th within the Premier League desk after three defeats of their opening 5 video games. Saturday’s match was all however carried out inside 70 minutes, with Brighton going 3-0 up over their hosts.
Goals from Danny Welbeck, Pascal Gross and Joao Pedro secured all three factors for the guests and go away United embarrassed. Mejbri did come on to rating with 17 minutes left, however the Red Devils had been unable to overturn the remaining two-goal deficit.
It was a powerful strike from the academy product, firing in from outdoors the field. And his cameo at Old Trafford happy Ten Hag on a tough day, with the Dutchman additionally highlighting the performances of the opposite trio.
“He did what we brought him [on] for, having an impact and bringing energy. He did it,” Ten Hag mentioned of Mejbri. “I feel there have been extra people, like Diogo Dalot, [who] performed very effectively, and Marcus Rashford had moments.
“Rasmus Hojlund was a threat all the time. We had some good players on the pitch. We were unlucky, unfortunate. We didn’t get what we were looking for and that was the result.”
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Ten Hag surprisingly opted to substitute Hojlund simply after the hour mark, on what was the Dane’s full debut for United. That determination was met by boos from the house crowd, with Anthony Martial approaching, although Ten Hag was not involved by that response.
“I feel it was optimistic, you see that the followers within the first second in Old Trafford, the reception for him was nice, I feel he carried out very effectively. So I feel it’s good that they provide him this sign, this message,” he mentioned.
“It will give him perception, Rasmus, however everybody is aware of he got here in with a small challenge, we constructed him over the previous three, four weeks, he’s not prepared for a complete recreation. And we now have many video games to play [at] quick discover, so yeah, we now have to construct him additionally in health.
“I feel as we speak as effectively, we performed effectively, first half, you analyse that first half, it’s loopy. I feel we began effectively, we created probabilities, and on the second assault for them and first probability, it’s in. Then we now have to do higher, we now have to take care of that setback.
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“Then we discover ourselves within the recreation, we rating the equaliser, however then it’s disallowed. And that’s I feel the stage we’re in at this second. Then you possibly can level to anybody, you will have to look within the mirror, look to your self, you will have to make your individual luck and, yeah, we now have to enhance.
“It’s about character and now we have to see how strong we are, and how the team sticks together, and which players are standing up, show the character and lead the team because in all the games, all the games we have seen we can play very good.”
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