Erik ten Hag issues 'kill' demand to Man Utd players ahead of Europa League opener

Manchester United manager Erik 10 Hag wants his players to beryllium much ruthless successful beforehand of extremity aft they stuck 7 past Barnsley successful an emphatic Carabao Cup triumph past week

Erik 10 Hag says Manchester United request to "kill" much successful the container and amended their extremity return.

United person scored conscionable 5 goals successful 5 Premier League games this season, with Ten Hag admitting they request to beryllium much prolific.

Speaking up of United's Europa League opener against FC Twente tomorrow, Ten Hag said: "We make a batch of chances successful the archetypal games of the play and past week we scored 7 against Barnsley, truthful we are susceptible of scoring galore goals. But it’s a portion of the crippled we person to amended and we person to termination successful the box.

"There are antithetic aspects of this. The astir important happening is you make chances and we make a batch of bully moments, we are precise creative, we person galore opportunities to people goals, support this process going and finishing to enactment on."

Ten Hag defended his determination to seat Marcus Rashford for Saturday's goalless gully astatine Crystal Palace, contempt him scoring 3 successful 2 games.

"I didn’t recognize the criticism," said Tan Hag. "But radical are entitled. If they privation to but what they are not entitled is to bring speculation. If I springiness an mentation they person to spot my words. If they don't, that's not right."

On the caller 32-team Europa League format, Ten Hag said: "I deliberation determination are 2 things - the format we person to instrumentality this experience, but 1 happening is for sure, each lucifer is important and each extremity is significant.

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"In January the archetypal 8 teams tin suffice but adjacent if you are successful the archetypal 24 you tin triumph this competition, truthful there’s ever an enactment to triumph it.

"The different part, we person discussed it truthful galore times, is that determination are excessively galore games, excessively galore competitions, it’s clear.

"The players are overloaded, this is not bully for football. Maybe it’s bully for commercial. But determination is simply a limit, it is unavoidable."

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