Ten Hag on Utd's 3-0 Liverpool defeat

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Ten Hag on Utd's 3-0 Liverpool defeat  01/09/2024  Old Trafford Stadium, Manchester, Uk

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00:00Okay, let's get this car sat down quickly.

00:27Right, Simon.

00:29Eric, there's Peter Casemiro leaving the ground,

00:35which has been reported as he left at half-time.

00:38Can you just clarify why you took him off and when he left the stadium?

00:44I can. I met him after the game in the dressing room,

00:49so he didn't leave the stadium at half-time.

00:53Why I sucked him was because we are 2-0 down,

00:59and against an opponent like Liverpool with their qualities,

01:02they are very good.

01:05We had to take risks because we wanted to bounce back.

01:09Then you need players in the midfield who can cover ground,

01:12therefore we brought Toby Colley on the pitch.

01:15Are you concerned that Casemiro is in decline?

01:18It was 11 months ago you took him off at half-time against Bremen,

01:21you dropped him for the FA Cup final.

01:23He looks a shadow of the player he was in the first season here.

01:28I think that in football everyone has to take responsibility,

01:33and I'm sure he's a great character.

01:36He won everything in his career, what you can imagine.

01:41I'm sure he will keep contributing to our team.

01:47Casemiro is always winning, so he will be there.

01:55Is there any frustration at all that after your injury in the third season,

01:58now we're still talking about missed chances,

02:01chances coming in quick succession, defensive lapses,

02:07that after so long with these players you're still having to answer the same question?

02:13We will see.

02:16It's just the third game in the season.

02:19Again, we have to build a new team.

02:21I explained this so many times also on Friday in the press conference.

02:28We will build this new team.

02:30We have young players, also we have now players to build in in the season.

02:34Today we had, I think, two or three players at the start of the season,

02:39and they didn't play 90 minutes.

02:41We will be fine.

02:43But it's clear we have to improve.

02:45But at the end of the season I'm quite confident again

02:49we will have a big chance to lift another trophy.

02:55Any more?

03:13This is another one.

03:15We have to build him in the team.

03:17It will take time.

03:21It's not like I'm Harry Potter.

03:27That is what you have to acknowledge.

03:30If you see Manuel Gata, he didn't play so far in the season.

03:36Not one match minute.

03:38He needs to build his fitness state.

03:42Then we have to build him in the team.

03:44I'm sure he will contribute to our level and he will be an important player.

03:48But that will take a couple of weeks, maybe even months,

03:51and I think that counts for more players.

03:53Also, for instance, Josh Siric, he made big steps the last three or four weeks.

03:58I'm very pleased with his performance today.

04:01But I didn't expect this four weeks ago.

04:10I don't want to talk about positives today.

04:13There are, but I don't want to talk about this.

04:16We have to take this defeat.

04:19It hurts. It hurts for us, especially for our fans.

04:23So we have to be humble, we have to give the compliments to Liverpool

04:27and we have to move on.

04:29Ian.

04:30Hi, Erik. I appreciate what you say about players and players needing time to get in.

04:34That's indisputably true.

04:36The mistakes that your team made today are the mistakes that they've been making for two years.

04:42What makes you confident that it's players that are the problem and not your coaching?

04:48So, what do you mean? Tell me then, explain to me.

04:52Maybe you can explain to me which mistakes we make regularly.

04:56Well, constantly turning the ball over in your own half,

04:59playing the ball out the back, getting mugged, chances coming back a bit,

05:03counter-attacks when you don't like them normally,

05:06giving up endless chances in your own stadium against the team's biggest rivals.

05:11You've seen that for so long.

05:14You are sure?

05:15Absolutely.

05:17I don't think otherwise you wouldn't win trophies as we did and to beat big opponents.

05:22So I'm sorry for you, I have another vision.

05:26You wouldn't be very surprised to play brilliantly against City in the final.

05:29You almost lost to Cambridge in the semi-final.

05:32Come on, let's have a realistic view of what happened.

05:36I think we won, after City, the most trophies in English football,

05:40so I'm sorry for you.

05:43Last question, James.

05:45Just following on from Rob's point about when you concede,

05:49you often concede again quite quickly.

05:52When he came in, obviously he said you inherited a lot of problems.

05:56This team today is looking very much like your team,

06:00with six of your signings, three New York City Academy players,

06:05but two of whom got actually promoted.

06:09Is there a concern that once you concede one,

06:13you're very, very vulnerable again in the next five or ten minutes?

06:18It's difficult to say, because this is the third game in the season

06:24and we are at Fulham with a clean sheet against Brighton.

06:29We bounced back, we didn't concede so quickly.

06:32We conceded in stoppage time from a set-play,

06:35so I can't see a pattern for this now in the season.

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