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Erik ten Hag says Manchester United “have to harm” after struggling a penalty shootout defeat to Manchester Metropolis within the Group Protect on Saturday.
Alejandro Garnacho had given the Pink Devils the lead within the 82nd minute earlier than Bernardo Silva’s equaliser seven minutes later pressured penalties after a 1-1 draw.
Each side had a spot-kick saved to drive sudden dying earlier than Jonny Evans’ missed penalty arrange Manuel Akanji to safe the trophy for Pep Guardiola’s facet with a 7-6 victory within the shootout.
United additionally had a Bruno Fernandes objective dominated out for offside, whereas Marcus Rashford hit the submit, and although Ten Hag was largely happy with the efficiency from his facet, he admitted that made it more durable to just accept the outcome.
“Powerful outcome to take,” Ten Hag informed ITV. “When the efficiency is true, while you lose, everybody feels this.
“It hurts in your abdomen. You must really feel ache and now we have to harm. We’ve got to take this perception into the league.
“We managed to be on an equal degree with Man Metropolis and received Rashford excessive on the pitch and good defending. We created possibilities, we received strain on the ball and in possession we had some superb possibilities from this, so there are various positives we will take.
“We did superb to supply the second objective within the FA Cup closing earlier than half-time and weren’t ready to try this right here.”
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Rashford had essentially the most possibilities for United however didn’t hit the goal with any of his three photographs as he generated an anticipated targets of 0.72.
After a prolific first season underneath Ten Hag, the winger struggled for type final yr, netting simply eight targets in all competitions.
Requested if he thought Rashford was low on confidence after failing to check Ederson, Ten Hag brushed considerations apart, as an alternative wanting on the positives in his efficiency.
“No, I feel he was a number of occasions in superb positions, I’m very happy he’s getting in these positions,” he mentioned in his press convention.
“Hold going and hold getting in these positions, and he’ll rating targets.”
