Did not take advantage of the opportunity Ten Hag:Manchester United should have scored more goals

2023-02-17 11:30

Did not take advantage of the opportunity Ten Hag:Manchester United should have scored more goals


In the first round of the UEFA Europa League in the 2022/23 season, the "Red Devils" Manchester United relied on Rashford and the opponent's own goal to take the lead, but was eventually tied by Barcelona coached by Harvey. Manchester United coach Ten Hag said in an interview with the media that after Barcelona equalized 2-2, the team should have scored more goals.


Barcelona also escaped a game-changing red card and penalty after the score became 2-1, Ten Hag said. Ten Hag said, "This is an obvious foul and penalty against Rashford. If this is in the penalty area or outside the penalty area, it must be a red card. I asked the referee at the time and he said it was in the penalty area. Plus, so there was no foul. If it weren't for VAR, the referees and lines referees were in a really good position. It was a bad decision."


In addition, in a melee near the end of the game, Sergi Roberto's header in the United penalty area appeared to hit Fred's hand, but the referee and VAR said nothing. Barcelona Xavi said for this, "I don't know what they have to do to award a penalty kick. They saw it and said no. It's incredible to me, it's incredible."


Ten Hag said, "You can't look at it like this. Rashford's score is 2 to 1, and the development of the game is different. I didn't see the handball, so this may also be a mistake. Maybe this is also possible. It was two mistakes, but you can't tie the two for the whole game because of a certain moment in the game, it was his wrong decision."


"When you create five or seven chances in a game, you have to finish more. We should be fully committed to the game, and we need to be more calm to finish and take advantage of the chances we create. In this way In the game, we did create a lot of chances, but unfortunately we didn't finish them."