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Fulham boss, Marco Silva, has defended Eric ten Hag's response to a TikTok video posted by Fulham of Bruno Fernandes through the match at Outdated Trafford final Saturday.
Nonetheless, the Portuguese supervisor stopped in need of apologizing for the Cottagers' resolution to submit it after the sport.
The submit was accompanied by a video of Bruno Fernandes falling to the bottom in ache, however then moments later he jumped up and saved United's assault going as they appeared in useless for the profitable purpose, however finally conceded within the 97th minute. Misplaced the match.
The video was captioned, “So glad he's okay”, together with an eye-rolling emoji, suggesting the midfielder's harm wasn't so actual.
Nonetheless, the participant was listed as uncertain earlier than the FA Cup tie in opposition to Nottingham Forest and, regardless of taking part in, he was seen limping from the stadium.
Talking at a press convention, Ten Hag was angered by the incident and demanded an apology from the west London aspect.
Elaborating on the difficulty, the Dutch coach commented, “I didn't find out about this video. If he did this then I’d say that it isn’t proper. That is merely not true. It’s not proper for any membership to make such statements. He ought to apologize for this.
The Fulham coach has now responded to Ten Hag's statements throughout his pre-match press convention forward of his group's match in opposition to Brighton (by way of The Mirror ).
“I'm not an enormous fan of social media however I'm as conscious of it as you'd anticipate.”
The 46-year-old claimed he understands the Man United supervisor's response and claimed he would have achieved the identical if he was in the identical state of affairs.
“This was Ten Haag's response. I feel it's a traditional state of affairs when a supervisor defends a soccer participant. With one in every of our gamers, I’m going to defend him until the final.
“All of us noticed that Ten Hag stated he had not seen the submit. He was talking after a query from a journalist. I didn't hear the query – I don't understand how the journalist requested this query.
“For a supervisor at that second, in the event you inform me 10 minutes in the past if a membership had stated one thing about my participant, I'm going to defend my participant even when I haven't seen it. That is the state of affairs”.
Nonetheless, the supervisor talked about a number of occasions that Ten Hag had not seen the video, suggesting that he was defending his membership's actions by saying that the video was not that critical.
The Lisbon-born coach additionally claimed that a variety of the noise surrounding the incident was linked to the narrative a few membership of United's measurement.
“Ten Hag protects his participant. I can perceive. All of the noise round and all that stuff comes as a result of it's Man United. I perceive every little thing – that's as a result of it's Manchester United. If it had been Marco Silva reacting a method, it most likely would have been over after 10 seconds.
The Portuguese supervisor additionally took the chance to defend his compatriot.
Talking on Bruno Fernandes he claimed, “He’s a high-quality participant and a high skilled. When you don't have the entire bundle in a single field and you aren’t that necessary a participant then you aren’t the captain of Manchester United. It is very important say this.”
Nonetheless, regardless of the sympathy there was no apology from the boss or the membership, who insist he meant no disrespect in direction of the Pink Devils or their captain.