Barnsley boss blames his players for ruining his big day out after Manchester United thrashing

Phil HaighPublished Sep 18, 2024, 7:50am|Updated Sep 18, 2024, 7:51am

Barnsley manager Darrell Clarke slammed his players aft the 7-0 mauling by Manchester United connected Tuesday night, saying they ruined a ‘proud night’ for him.

The Red Devils blew distant their League One opponents astatine Old Trafford, with Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Christian Eriksen each scoring doubly and Antony winning and past converting a penalty.

The South Yorkshire broadside were beauteous competitory implicit the archetypal 30 minutes and looked to airs immoderate menace down their close flank, but their defending was highly poor.

There was surely country for disapproval for the mode Barnsley were set-up successful the archetypal place, but Clarke made it wide helium thought his players were to blasted for the disastrous night.

‘I person had a spell astatine them. I wasn’t blessed with the performance, I cognize we person travel to Man United, who person satellite people players, but I wasn’t blessed with however we played,’ helium said, via the Barnsley Chronicle.

‘Mael (de Gevigney) was the lone subordinate who comes retired with credit. Did the juncture get to immoderate of them? Yes probably. We person to recognize what it takes to beryllium a apical player.

‘Don’t ever fto maine perceive 1 of them talking astir however atrocious immoderate Premier League players are. They are miles off. The players were miles disconnected the standards of a apical Barnsley subordinate contiguous ne'er caput a apical Premier League player.

‘It was arrogant nighttime for myself but it’s been ruined by the performance.

‘Some of the mistakes for the goals, I didn’t recognise. We were a mile off. My biggest fearfulness was that we wouldn’t bash ourselves justness and I don’t deliberation we did.’

Manchester United manager Erik 10 Hag recognised that things were not each going their mode aboriginal on, but was delighted with however his broadside improved and pounced connected Barnsley’s aggregate mistakes.

‘First of all, it was a hard commencement but, erstwhile we recovered the shape, it’s not truthful weird due to the fact that it’s the archetypal clip this squad is playing together,’ helium said. ‘But erstwhile we recovered the signifier and the patterns, we scored immoderate large goals, starting with [Marcus] Rashford which was a superb extremity but I’d besides accidental immoderate different goals were truly good.

‘We played with a batch of velocity and we were precise ruthless successful beforehand of the goal.’

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