West Ham manager Julen Lopetegui defends Erik ten Hag from one criticism

Phil HaighPublished Oct 25, 2024, 5:21pm|Updated Oct 25, 2024, 5:22pm

Julen Lopetegui has dismissed the thought that Manchester United don’t person a benignant of play nether Erik 10 Hag, saying that is wide to him what they are doing.

The Hammers big the Red Devils connected Sunday and some managers are already nether unit aft mediocre starts to the season.

Lopetegui lone took implicit successful eastbound London implicit the summertime but 8 points from 8 Premier League games is not cutting the mustard.

Ten Hag is into his 3rd play successful complaint astatine Old Trafford but with improvements hard to identify, the Dutchman’s aboriginal is perpetually successful question.

The Manchester United manager has specifically been criticised for not having a wide program successful matches, with a benignant of play hard to recognise.

However, erstwhile that disapproval was enactment to Lopetegui, the Spaniard was not having it, saying it is evident what the Red Devils are doing successful onslaught and defence.

‘For sure, for sure. For maine it’s precise clear,’ helium told a property conference. ‘They person 1 mode to play, to onslaught and to defend, for sure.

‘Our enactment is to analyse and to beryllium capable to bushed them, but they person 1 benignant of benignant to onslaught and to defend, for sure.’

He added: ‘We are going to play against a precise large squad — Manchester United is 1 of the champion teams successful the world. We person to beryllium acceptable to look them and enactment hard to beryllium bushed them.’

A decision astatine location to the underwhelming Red Devils would heap adjacent much unit connected the erstwhile Spain and Real Madrid boss, but helium says that feeling the strain is mean and is not bothering him.

‘When you go a coach, you unrecorded with unit always. This is normal, and sometimes it is bully too. It is our benignant of life,’ helium said.

‘I deliberation that each the coaches, we are nether unit always, sometimes more, sometimes little depending connected the past matches.

‘There are a batch of matches successful beforehand of us, I judge a batch successful these players, and I americium definite that the bully results are going to arrive.

‘The lone mode that we going to bash this is successful our regular enactment is to enactment hard and to effort to beryllium self-critics and to beryllium capable to improve. We are successful this successful this mode and successful this work.’

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