Erik ten Hag has defended David de Gea after his errors in Manchester United’s 3-0 defeat to Sevilla within the Europa League on Thursday night.
De Gea had an evening to neglect in Spain as he was partly at fault for Sevilla’s opening objective because of his determination to go to an under-pressure Harry Maguire, who then misplaced possession which allowed Youssef En-Nesyri to attain.
The 32-year-old additionally made one other clear error with 9 minutes remaining as he did not take care of a protracted ball in direction of his objective and his poor management enabled En-Nesyri to finish Sevilla’s deserved win.
Ten Hag has already confronted calls this season to exchange De Gea this summer season as soon as the Spaniard’s contract with United expires.
However when requested if De Gea is United’s long-term goalkeeper after the defeat to Sevilla, Ten Hag replied: ‘He’s the one with essentially the most clear sheets within the Premier League.
‘So it exhibits he’s a really succesful goalkeeper.’
Ten Hag additionally claimed the mentality proven by his United gamers within the loss to Sevilla was ‘unacceptable’.
‘I’ve to acknowledge that it’s the fact: it’s exhausting, it’s powerful and it will probably’t be. It’s unacceptable,’ stated Ten Hag.
‘We have now to study. We have now to start out video games higher, extra want, ardour, composure on the ball. And when we have now a setback we have now to take care of it and get again on the ball. We have now to be higher. It’s not concerning the enjoying expertise. It’s about character.
‘They’d extra willingness to win and that may’t be, I feel it’s unacceptable.
‘We have now to select the gamers up. However we additionally should face that we let ourselves down, we have now let the followers down. If you wish to win trophies, if you wish to achieve success, you want character.
‘I’ve had this [situation] many instances… Metropolis, Liverpool, Brentford. And each time we bounced again.
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‘We have now good psychological expertise, on some events we’re not there. What we have now to simply accept now’s that it’s unacceptable. Everybody can see that the calls for and the usual must be increased in a membership resembling Manchester United.
‘We have now seen we will do it towards Forest. We had the need and at the moment we didn’t. You possibly can count on that Manchester United gamers do it extra constantly. Too typically we have now a extremely poor efficiency and that may’t be.’
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