Erik ten Hag insists football philosophy is worthless if Manchester United players don’t show the right attitude, as
Manchester United are set to clash with Liverpool next Monday night with the need to win the latter. Losing their first two games of the season
, Ten Hag started his managerial career with a disastrous result, losing 2-1 to Brighton in the opening game of the season and a 4–4 thrashing of Brentford. 0 in which all four goals were scored in less than 40 minutes of the game. The UFABET report
The Dutchman insists he is unhappy with the attitude the players showed in the first two games and says the philosophy of football is useless without the right attitude.
“I think I’ve made myself clear. I’m definitely not happy,” Ten Hag told a press conference before the game.
“For football, you can talk about philosophy. But you need the basics, the right attitude and I didn’t see that from the first minute.
“You have to show it in every match. Especially this Monday game.”
And when asked how his week was, Ten Hag replied: “It’s been a normal week for the manager. So you watch the game, you have a plan and analyze what went wrong or what went
well. I’m aware of some criticism. Some are good advice and some are not so good.”
“We worked one game at a time. Now is against Liverpool and we know what happens when we are Man United and against Liverpool, you have to fight to get yourself back into the season and get ready
. We have been doing really well on the training ground since the start of the season.”