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Manchester United boss Erik Ten Hag says that "We have to do better, the ranking if not reflecting our performance and our levels"

27/10/2024

London Stadium, London, UK
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00:00Do you expect any players to be available again on Wednesday to come back from England?
00:05No, I don't think so.
00:07You've been out for more than two months now.
00:12You said you'd come back in September, but it looks like it's now going to be November.
00:17Has he had setbacks?
00:19The process is not going as we expected, that's the truth.
00:26If it's a setback, if you want to call it like this, yes.
00:31But we also want to do it very carefully, because we don't...
00:39When he's now dropping again, then we have made the wrong process.
00:45So we want to be very careful.
00:48We know his past.
00:51We have to do this right, because we want him to be available,
00:56because he will have a big impact on our performances and also on our levels.
01:01So we can't have it that he's playing for some games and then drop out again.
01:06So we do it very carefully.
01:08Richard?
01:09That's winning trophies in both seasons.
01:12If you win a trophy in the third season, does that make the season's success again?
01:18Definitely. It's about trophies.
01:23I don't want to go into this debate again, but I think it's the truth.
01:30There are not so many trophies you can win.
01:34If you win a trophy in top football, that is most important.
01:40Because that is what the fans expect and what we expect to win a trophy.
01:47We have had five opportunities, one we missed.
01:52That was on the first in the Community Shield, but still four to go.
01:58After the Europe League game, you said Manuel Gatte is developing,
02:03but there are still parts of the game model you will need to build into this game.
02:08What are you looking for in your midfielders?
02:13My midfielders, I have different types.
02:17Of course we have the holding midfielders, we have the box-to-box, we have the tens.
02:23Most of the time we have four midfielders there and we rotate them.
02:30Specific for Manuel Gatte, most of the time he will be playing in a holding position midfielder.
02:37What we expect from him is, the word already said, holding, but also linking.
02:44Building the attack, making the links into attack.
02:51And then, very important, he is in rest defence and defence transition.
02:56Is this linking the bit you want to build into the game?
03:01I think every player can do better, but I was very happy with his performance in Vandenberg.
03:09That was definitely a step forward.
03:13How do you think the players will respond to this setback today?
03:16They performed well, but not taking the chances.
03:19The penalty call, when you look at the table, 14 in the Premier League.
03:23Do you think they look at that and think that's not good enough?
03:26First of all, we have to do better.
03:28That is the ranking.
03:30But I will tell them the ranking is not reflecting our performance and our levels.
03:34But at the end of the season we have to get this right.
03:40Of course, it's not easy when you have so many setbacks at the start of a season.
03:45To overcome this.
03:48But we have to fight back.
03:50It will always help when you have a good start.
03:53Because that gives motivation, it gives belief.
03:57The confidence will grow.
04:00We are now in the process on the other side, where we are disappointed.
04:05We have to deal with setbacks.
04:07Now we have to find the fuel from setbacks and disappointments.

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