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Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag has insisted that Matthijs de Ligt’s woes on the worldwide stage or unlikely to have any bearing on his scenario at membership stage.
Ten Hag spoke to the press forward of United’s Saturday conflict in opposition to Southampton and had his say on De Ligt’s troubles.
De Ligt – a participant United signed in the summertime from Bayern Munich – endured a catastrophic September worldwide break.
The defender made a expensive mistake in opposition to Bosnia and Herzegovina that led to Edin Dzeko’s purpose within the 73rd minute. His error compelled Dutch boss Ronald Koeman to defend him publicly.
Within the Netherlands’ subsequent sport vs. Germany, Koeman backed De Ligt and determined to afford him yet one more begin alongside Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk. The choice backfired as the brand new United arrival made two different howlers that gifted Die Mannschaft their objectives and within the course of, earned them a draw on the Johan Cruyff Enviornment.
Van Dijk specifically lambasted De Ligt whereas Koeman advised the media that he took him off at half-time to guard him.
In the course of the embargoed part of his presser, Ten Hag was requested about De Ligt and replied, “I do know Matthijs and he’s an incredible character, his character, he’ll overcome this and can bounce again on this scenario for the Dutch squad.”
“Positively not his membership scenario. I’m not afraid for this example, I do know his qualities, I do know his character and I do know he’ll struggle again.”
“The opposite factor is he had a really troublesome pre-season as a result of he didn’t play video games. His solely sport from the beginning was final sport in opposition to Liverpool, with out this he goes and begins for the Dutch squad and he’s not within the rhythm but or as much as full velocity. However when he’s you will notice his qualities and a special participant.”
One other United participant at present going by a tricky spell is Casemiro.
Ten Hag stated concerning the Brazilian midfielder, “In fact, it’s a special method. He [Casemiro] is skilled and it’s not the primary time, I suppose, that he has handled a nasty sport. Now he has to beat this one as nicely, however that’s regular in life.”
“You’ve gotten highs and you’ve got lows, in your life and likewise within the lifetime of a soccer participant. Just for a soccer participant, after all, that’s apparent, there are lots of observing this and have an opinion about this. You’ve gotten additionally to cope with this. He is aware of learn how to cope with it.”
“Nobody profession goes solely up, nobody workforce stage or workforce sample is just going up. It’s important to cope with it, however it’s about what’s the finish outcome.”
Manuel Ugarte is in competition to lastly make his United debut in opposition to the Saints following his deadline-day transfer from Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain.
On Ugarte, Ten Hag defined, “I performed him already, as supervisor of Ajax, after we performed Sporting Lisbon. He’s fairly a very long time on my radar. He’s coming in, it’s a late switch coming in, however he’s enjoying in a vital place. It’s important to join defending with attacking and attacking with defending.”
“Communication is essential there, to tie the workforce, to steer the workforce, to make the connection between attacking and defence, defence and attacking. We’ve got to assist him, we’ve got to information him, how he has to play that position, however from what we’ve got seen, he is aware of already so much, after all. He has the profile the place we predict he can slot in that position and now we’ve got to show him some particulars, the way it works in our workforce.”
The Dutch coach added, “It was not solely that match but in addition within the seasons after, when he performed there, when he performed for Uruguay, when he performed for Paris [Saint-Germain]. I’ve him in my thoughts, I’ve him in my eye. The scouting division has him of their thoughts and we adopted him. We judged that he can be a extremely good match for our workforce.”
Ten Hag emphasised the significance of squad depth as he acknowledged that United want at the very least two high quality gamers in each place.
He reiterated that the gamers should perceive their respective roles in them and on the finish of the day, should take accountability when on the pitch.
United’s Saturday conflict in opposition to Southampton kicks off at 12:30 BST.
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