{"id":14964,"date":"2023-12-15T18:26:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/14964\/man-united-boss-ten-hag\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T15:26:32","slug":"man-united-boss-ten-hag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=14964","title":{"rendered":"Man United boss Ten Hag insists he has backing of club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man United boss Ten Hag insists he has backing of club\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson, correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">December 15, 2023, 2:22 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANCHESTER, England \u2014 Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag said he still had the club&#39;s support despite being eliminated from Europe, and added that he was &#8220;not worried&#8221; about a heavy defeat against Liverpool could increase the pressure on his team.  job.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> travel to Anfield on the back of a run of one win in their last five games, including a 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich on Tuesday which ended their interest in this season&#39;s Champions League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Premier League leaders Liverpool await Sunday but Ten Hag insists he has no fears another defeat could further damage their position.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t worry me,\u201d Ten Hag said at a news conference Friday.  \u201cI want to win and move the team in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel [the support of the club] and they say it but actually it&#39;s good and it&#39;s OK, but I&#39;m focused on the process, for this team to play better, for the individuals to be better and that&#39;s my concern.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Erik ten Hag&#39;s position has come under increasing pressure in recent weeks following defeats to Bournemouth and Bayern Munich. <cite>Richard Sellers\/Sportsphoto\/Allstar via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>United have not won at Anfield since January 2016, when Louis van Gaal was manager and Morgan Schneiderlin and Matteo Darmian started the game.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag&#39;s side were beaten 7-0 there last season and this time the Dutch coach will have to choose a team without captain Bruno Fernandes, who was suspended, and Harry Maguire, who suffered a groin injury against Bayern.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Shaw is available after normal training on Friday while Marcus Rashford is fit again after illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone is very motivated when we go to Anfield,\u201d Ten Hag said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#39;s a great place to go. We know it&#39;s going to be difficult, but that&#39;s what every top footballer wants: the challenge. Last year. [the 7-0] we remember it, but we must also take advantage of it and learn from it.  \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Despite a dismal <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> to the season which has seen United lose more games (12) than they have won (11), Ten Hag believes the future is bright if they can find a way out of their bad form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe future of <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"Man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Man<\/a> United is very good,\u201d he said.  \u201cYou can see how many good players we have in the team, how many good young players who have very high potential to play at the highest level in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we need to develop that. I&#39;m sure when the injuries come back we will perform better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man United boss Ten Hag insists he has backing of club\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentDecember 15, 2023, 2:22 p.m. MANCHESTER, England \u2014 Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag said he still had the club&#39;s support despite being eliminated from Europe, and added that he was &#8220;not worried&#8221; about a heavy defeat against Liverpool could increase the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,1231,1729,1905,7449,32,1904,29],"class_list":["post-14964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-backing","tag-boss","tag-club","tag-hag","tag-insists","tag-man","tag-ten","tag-united"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14966,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14964\/revisions\/14966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}