Erik ten Hag not fearing Manchester United sack despite Tottenham drubbing: 'We need time'

Erik 10 Hag insists helium is not reasoning astir being sacked and called for much clip to crook Manchester United astir aft Sunday's 3-0 decision by Tottenham.

United made it 3 defeats from their archetypal six Premier League games of the play successful a wretched show against Ange Postecoglou's side, which saw skipper Bruno Fernandes shown a consecutive reddish paper earlier the interval and Kobbie Mainoo forced disconnected done injury.

Ten Hag is present acceptable to look a barrage of caller speculation astir his aboriginal and unit from the club's part-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who decided to support the Dutchman successful station aft past season's FA Cup Final triumph implicit Manchester City and handed him a caller contract.

Asked if helium feared the sack pursuing consecutive 3-0 defeats astatine location successful the league, Ten Hag said: "No, I americium not reasoning astir this.

"We each made successful togetherness successful this determination to enactment together, arsenic an ownership, a enactment radical successful the summer. Also we made the determination from a wide reappraisal what we person to amended and however we privation to conception a squad but we knew it volition instrumentality immoderate time, however the model went, immoderate players precocious successful similar [Manuel] Ugarte, besides we person to marque immoderate betterment successful organisation, immoderate injuries, we request immoderate time.

"We are each connected 1 leafage oregon successful 1 vessel together, the ownership, the unit and the players arsenic well. I don’t person that interest [about being sacked]."

Spurs took the pb wrong 3 minutes astatine Old Trafford erstwhile Brennan Johnson tapped successful aft a superb tally from wrong his ain fractional by Micky van de Ven.

Fernandes was sent disconnected soon earlier the interval for a situation connected James Maddison and Spurs added a 2nd astatine the commencement of the 2nd fractional done the superb Dejan Kulusevski. Dominic Solanke scored a close-range third, prompting thousands of United supporters to watercourse retired of Old Trafford agelong earlier full-time.

“It is simply a atrocious commencement of the game, Tottenham were dominant, we made galore mistakes successful possession that we should not make," Ten Hag said.

"We couldn’t walk retired of the property and made incorrect decisions. We had chances to travel backmost and past the reddish paper changed the game.

“I don’t deliberation it was a reddish card. It was lone 1-0, we could person made a comeback and it had a large interaction connected the game.

“Our archetypal fractional was nary good, it is not imaginable that a subordinate tin dribble done our full squad and acceptable up a goal. You person to halt that. I made wide earlier the crippled however we person to support it.

“We mislaid confidence, we tin bash amended and each of the players cognize this. We were indisciplined. We were excessively stressed connected the ball.

"It is ever a caller day. I told the players we person to learn, bash things amended and beryllium amended connected the ball. There were situations erstwhile we could person kept the shot and recovered the spare man.

“I don’t privation to speech astir advancement aft specified a defeat. We person to woody with this.”