Ten Hag looking for more goal from inconsistent Utd ahead of Tottenham test (Full Presser)

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Ten Hag looking for more goal from inconsistent Utd ahead of Tottenham test  26/09/2024  Carrington Training ground, Manchester, UK

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00:00Eric, just reflecting on not only last night but the Crystal Palace game,

00:07what is wrong with your team that gets you to produce matches like that?

00:14We spoke last night about Christian and you saying it wasn't good enough.

00:19What is the problem at the moment with your team?

00:23Not scoring goals. Not scoring goals enough.

00:28That's the problem. It's the key area to score more goals as a team.

00:34I think we have players across the team who have the ability to score.

00:40But that's clear. You see all the opportunities we are creating.

00:45We're not scoring enough.

00:49You've got Tottenham this weekend.

00:51First of all, is anybody going to be available that hasn't won last night?

00:55No, I don't think so. I think it will be the same squad as yesterday.

01:02What are you expecting from the match?

01:04Obviously there are peaks and troughs in every season,

01:07but it feels like a win would be an important shot in the arm at this stage.

01:12What are you expecting from Tottenham?

01:14I think it will be a very intensive game.

01:17It's always against Tottenham.

01:21It's our style as well.

01:25I think it's going to be a very dynamic, attractive game.

01:32You're talking about scoring goals being the big issue.

01:35How do you solve that? Is that as simple as personnel,

01:38or is it something that has to be done on the training pitch?

01:41How do you see that?

01:42Both. You always work into a season.

01:48You have to build it.

01:52The structures in defending and possession, of course,

01:56you start with the build-up.

01:57I think we have the structures there quite right.

02:02Across almost all the games, we have more possession as the opponent.

02:08But then it's about what you're doing with your possession.

02:12I think we bring the ball into the final third.

02:15We bring the ball even into the box a lot.

02:17But now we have to take more advantage, more benefit from it.

02:23Eric, Ange Postacoglou has talked about the philosophy aside,

02:27having attacking teams, being positive.

02:29In this moment, this situation, given what you've said about your squad,

02:33your players, does that help you at all in the way you set up and approach this game?

02:38Of course, every opponent has strengths and weaknesses.

02:45Tottenham have their strengths, definitely.

02:50In their philosophy, very clear, very attacking,

02:59but that leaves also space.

03:01But that is what they take into account.

03:07Maybe it can help, but you have to be very good against Tottenham.

03:11If you want to control the game, you need a high performance level.

03:20Then we will create again, I'm sure, but take your chances.

03:27Eric, you're in your third season now.

03:30How can it be that the team can come from a game and say

03:35that they didn't try as much as the opposition?

03:37The opposition wanted it more.

03:38How can we be at that point?

03:41I think every team has this in a season.

03:48When you play 60 games,

03:51I'm sure there will be games where you are not happy with the performance,

03:59but you are not happy where the opponent wants more.

04:03I think that is always the psychological side of football,

04:08top football, what takes part.

04:11Any team is more hungry than the other.

04:16The team that can manage this the best, of course.

04:20They are the most successful.

04:24We are ambitious, so you always demand from yourself

04:29that you are the more hungry as your opponent.

04:33So you think your team needs to be hungrier?

04:36We should be, that is what we demand from each other.

04:42We have to bring in on a consistent base.

04:46That is what we are striving for.

04:48Successful teams have this.

04:51Joshua said he has had a few chances this season.

04:54His link-up play has been very good.

04:56I think it was Ronald Koeman who said he is more of a 9.5.

04:59Do you think he can become a prolific goalscorer for Manchester United?

05:04Yes, I do.

05:06It is sure.

05:08He is young.

05:10We see his great abilities.

05:14He is a very good link-up player, as you say.

05:18He is creative.

05:20He is creating chances.

05:22But to be fair, he also has his moments towards the goal from the opposition.

05:29Yesterday as well, I think it was a great action he had.

05:32With a great finish as well.

05:34It was a top save from the keeper.

05:36In that area, he can definitely improve.

05:40We know that on the forehand, he has some very good attributes.

05:45And also some attributes he has to improve.

05:48There he needs our support on how to improve.

05:54You have been here two full seasons now.

05:56You have had five transfer windows.

05:58I think the spend has been about £600 million.

06:01Given all that, are the fans of Manchester United not entitled to feel

06:05the team should be further forward than you currently are

06:08and play with more consistency?

06:10Are they not entitled to feel that?

06:14I think you have to assess the situation.

06:21Still now, we are working.

06:24We are in progress.

06:27We still have to sign players.

06:29We made the choice to sign very young players.

06:32Like last year, Hoyland.

06:35Like this year, Xhexhe.

06:38Like Lenny Yoro.

06:40They are players who we believe in them now in this moment.

06:47But also for the future.

06:49We have to build them.

06:52When I started, we spoke about it more.

06:55We had to make a switch in the dressing room.

06:58I think we turned the corner.

07:01Now we have to work with the squad.

07:04That takes time.

07:06Of course, it's not a good behaviour for me.

07:12I'm impatient.

07:13I want to go straight forward.

07:15But also be fair, we also had success in the last two seasons.

07:19Again, we have to work very hard to bring another success.

07:23Do the fans have to be more patient?

07:26Is that your message?

07:27Some of them, understandably or maybe not understandably,

07:30are losing patience and want to see the team further forward.

07:33Challenging near the top of the Premier League and playing with greater consistency.

07:37Do they need to be more patient?

07:38You also have to be fair.

07:40I say it again.

07:42We won two trophies in the last two seasons.

07:47This season, we are ambitious.

07:51Don't get us wrong.

07:53We want to win another one.

07:57We want to be as high as possible.

08:00We call it in every game.

08:02We will go for winning the game.

08:04It doesn't matter who the opponent is.

08:09Bruno Fernandes is the one that stays out there for the entirety of the game.

08:15But is he at all fatigued by the start of the season?

08:18It seems like he's not quite at the levels we've seen of him previously.

08:22I think the team brings him now into the situation.

08:29I think he is capable of it.

08:33I think he has proven this so many years already in the Premier League

08:38that he can create many chances.

08:41I'm convinced that this season he will not do differently.

08:47He will come to this point where he will find his form.

08:52He's already creating chances, but he will make final passes.

08:57He will score goals 100%.

09:00It's just a matter of time.

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