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Erik ten Hag has expressed his disappointment with the medical dealing with of defenders Luke Shaw and Tyrell Malacia.
Talking on the pre-match press convention forward of tomorrow lunchtime’s Premier League conflict with Everton at Previous Trafford, the United supervisor was requested in regards to the lack of choices at left again and replied:
“We discuss one in every of my greatest frustrations, there. You may settle for ready {that a} participant is just not obtainable, however when two gamers should not obtainable over the course of the season, that may be very irritating.”
Explaining why he allowed Sergio Reguilon to rejoin Spurs in January when Shaw and Malacia had been unfit, he defined:
“In December, I had the talks with the medical [staff], they assured me they [Shaw and Malacia] will each be slot in January. Then you have got a 3rd one, so I might at all times need to disappoint one full-back.”
“And, yeah, we now have now massive setbacks. We have now had massive setbacks. However we hold going and we now have a powerful mentality. We hold combating and we hold pushing the crew in the best course.
“I feel Liverpool is an efficient instance, final 12 months they’d the identical [injuries] and so they couldn’t take care of it as nicely.”
On Malacia, the boss stated: “I feel it’s going to be troublesome for him this season to be obtainable.
“He’ll combat, he’s again on the pitch, however not within the crew and the method had some setbacks for him and he’s nonetheless going forwards actually slowly and the season is coming to an finish.”
Requested what the scenario was with Shaw, he replied:
“I feel it’s the identical. Yeah, possibly for the final video games of the season, however I, we don’t anticipate him again, this [month] or subsequent month. For the entire season? I actually specific it. As a crew we now have to and as a squad, we now have to take care of it.”
The boss was additionally requested to reply to former supervisor, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s feedback in regards to the fashionable sport and replied:
“I feel these days it’s far more troublesome to be a crew. Gamers are far more on their very own, as people, and round them all of them have their very own enterprise items, their very own corporations. To assemble it as a crew is the largest change within the final 15 to twenty years.”
Requested in regards to the environment inside Previous Trafford amidst rising frustration among the many fanbase in regards to the season’s development, Ten Hag admitted:
“We’re, I feel, very reliant with our followers and they’re very supportive to us. However after all, we at all times have to energise them. We have now to verify we’re prepared and that we present the followers we’re prepared.”
