Erik ten Hag on Newcastle" They're so delicate to beat and it's a big compliment for them, but we've to find a way to beat them and no matter what." Watch the Carabao Cup final live on Sky Sports Football from 3 pm on Sunday; kick- off4.30 pm
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It now seems a fooling of the mind, an altogether alien earth in which Erik ten Hag was being framed in the same environment as Frank de Boer, writes Melissa Reddy. After brutal Premier League beatings by Brighton and Brentford in his opening games in charge of Manchester United, there were laying requests offering odds on whether the former Ajax master would be sacked briskly than De Boer's 77 days at Crystal Palace. Ten Hag was the first director to lose each of his first two matches in United's unker since John Chapman in 1921. The figures were unattractive, the club were bottom of the table, and the long shanks were out.
Ten Hag, still, was unflustered. As detailed preliminarily on Sky Sports News, staff close to him at Carrington believe the Dutchman's topmost strength is how he reacts in dark moments. When he was being questioned and scouted in August, the 53- time-old offered a important response." I wanted this challenge," Ten Hag said, adding" In my career far and wide, the launch was delicate but I got it done and I am convinced I'll get it done then as well." The Portugal transnational and other elderly members of the team have spotlighted Ten Hag's authority and surety in his styles as a core motorist behind United being the only platoon in Europe's major leagues in the blend for four glories.
The director has been harmonious in his turndown to sway from enforcing the loftiest norms and a culture of excellence at the club Alejandro Garnacho was late for a meeting duringpre-season and didn't feature for the rest of the stint, the in- form Marcus Rashford was also dropped for belatedness and Cristiano Ronaldo was removed altogether for constantly putting himself ahead of United.
It does not count who you are, it's Ten Hag's way or you gesture farewell. The exactingness is enmeshed with wimpiness, as seen in his caring running of Jadon Sancho and the help in getting him to rediscover his focus and love for the game. maybe the stylish encapsulation of Ten Hag's warmth and ice is how he mingles with staff from different departments in the canteen at Carrington, beaming at hearing perceptivity about their home life before asking them a pantomimist about the job.
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" You have to be sharp, you have to be over to date with what is going on in your area because he'll ask you," as explained by one hand." And he wants details." This can stretch to which tackle United are wearing down from home and what the palm rate is in it. Ten Hag subscribes to the specifics, from the dimension of training cone distances to how long a player has been in the ice bath. He believes every action counts and there's an edge in the lowest habits- like his pitch examinations.
Ten Hag's surveying of the face home and down feeds into his politic planning, but he may spend redundant time examining a Wembley turf he is only ever seen on television. Ahead of the Carabao Cup final against Newcastle, his first crack at winning flatware in England, he sat down with Sky Sports News to talk about restoring a faded mammoth and the excitement of turning out at the country's" theatre." Erik, your first time at Wembley is an occasion to lead Manchester United to flatware. Not a bad visit
" It's a great moment I to go to Wembley. I suppose. It's a real theatre to play a game, to play a final. It's really instigative to go there. And of course if you go there, you want to win and it's a big day for us." As a director, do you still get that excitement over effects like that? Visiting a new colosseum?
" Yeah. Still as well. But every match gives excitement, of course there are differences between them. And so I had the experience now to go to a different league and that's great. To get experience of a different culture and different colosseums that's great to have that in your life and it makes life instigative. So Sunday, I am really looking forward to going to the colosseum. It's so well known, but I only know it from TV. Sunday I've to witness it for myself and I am really looking forward to it."