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Fulham boss, Marco Silva, has defended Erik ten Hag’s response to a TikTok video posted by Fulham of Bruno Fernandes throughout the match at Previous Trafford final Saturday.
Nevertheless, the Portuguese supervisor has stopped in need of apologising for the Cottagers’ choice to put up it after the sport.
The put up was a video of Bruno Fernandes falling to the bottom in agony however then leaping up moments later to take care of a United assault as they seemed in useless for a profitable purpose, earlier than finally conceding within the 97th minute to lose the match.
The video was accompanied by the caption, “so glad he’s okay”, together with a rolling eyes emoji, suggesting that the midfielder’s harm was not so real.
Nevertheless, the participant was listed as a doubt earlier than the FA Cup tie in opposition to Nottingham Forest and regardless of taking part in, was seen limping away from the stadium.
Talking at a press convention,Ten Hag was livid with the incident and demanded an apology from the West London facet.
Elaborating on the problem the Dutch coach commented, “I didn’t find out about this video. In the event that they did this I’d say it isn’t proper. It’s completely not proper. It isn’t proper for a membership to make such statements. They need to apologise for this”.
The Fulham coach has now responded to Ten Hag’s statements throughout his personal pre-match press convention (through The Mirror) forward of his facet’s match in opposition to Brighton.
“I’m not an enormous fan of social media however as you’ll anticipate I’m conscious of this”.
The 46 12 months previous claimed he understood the Man United supervisor’s response and claimed he would have carried out the identical factor, have been he in the identical situation.
“It was a response from Ten Hag. When a supervisor defends a soccer participant I believe it’s a regular state of affairs. With one in all our gamers, I’m going to defend them to the final.
“All of us seen that Ten Hag mentioned he had not seen the put up. He was talking after a query from a journalist. I haven’t heard the query – I don’t know the way the journalist put that query”.
“For a supervisor in that second, when you say to me that 10 minutes in the past if any membership mentioned one thing about my participant, I’m going to defend my participant even when I haven’t seen it. That’s the state of affairs”.
Nevertheless, the quite a few instances the supervisor talked about that Ten Hag had not seen the video, suggests he was implying the video was not that severe both, in defence of his personal membership’s actions.
The Lisbon-born coach additionally asserted that plenty of the noise across the incident was related to the story being a couple of membership the dimensions of United.
“Ten Hag defends his participant. I can perceive that. All the opposite noise round and all that stuff comes as a result of it’s Man United. I perceive every little thing – it’s as a result of it’s Manchester United. If it have been Marco Silva reacting in a method, it could in all probability be completed in 10 seconds after”.
The Portuguese supervisor additionally took the possibility to defend his compatriot.
Talking on Bruno Fernandes he claimed, “He is a high-quality participant and a high skilled. You aren’t a Manchester United captain when you don’t have all the entire package deal in the identical field and be such an necessary participant. That is necessary to say”.
Nevertheless, regardless of the sympathy an apology was not forthcoming from the boss or the membership, who insist they meant no offence to the Pink Devils or their captain.
