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Eric ten Hag has admitted that his Manchester United group are unlikely to qualify for subsequent season's Champions League.
The supervisor was requested in his pre-match press convention forward of Sunday's match towards Liverpool whether or not his group needed a flawless finish to the season.
“Sure, I’ve mentioned this earlier than. However I feel so, sure,” he replied.
“In stoppage time this week, we’ve dropped 5 factors, it is vitally costly. As a result of factors are getting dearer as the sport ends and we all know it.
“We now have to maneuver ahead and we’re a number of factors behind proper now, so it will likely be troublesome. However we are going to preserve preventing and I'm certain you see, our group, they’ve character.
“We noticed an instance immediately too, they’re resilient and I'm certain they are going to be in motion towards Liverpool on Sunday.
“For me personally, I’ve to handle the sport and I’ve to handle the group, I needed to say. We see that we’ve qualities. We now have some nice gamers. We will keep in rhythm, we will play at a really excessive degree.
“We noticed an instance immediately and we noticed it towards Liverpool. We will compete with the perfect, we will beat the perfect groups within the Premier League. Whenever you do it within the Premier League, you are able to do it throughout Europe.
“However we now must learn to win video games. It was an instance (yesterday towards Chelsea), Saturday was an instance, how you set large video games on the road, get three factors. We now have to step up. We now have to make higher choices individually and as a group.”
Requested about Marcus Rashford's motivation after footage of him wandering aimlessly circulated on social media, Ten Hag replied:
“We nonetheless have an opportunity within the FA Cup and are preventing for a Champions League spot, the Euros are additionally arising so I might say their motivation ought to be excessive. Kind, that's a second however we will at all times change the tempo and not too long ago earlier than Brentford he had scored 3 targets in 3 video games.
Talking concerning the Liverpool sport, ten Hag admitted:
“First I’ve to cope with this (the Chelsea defeat). We now have to recuperate in a short time. We now have to alter this, from tomorrow everybody will probably be in a optimistic temper, we’ve to maneuver ahead, we’ve to create power.
“With that anger, you possibly can take a number of power and we’ve to do it that approach.”
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