Manchester United will start the 2024/25 season coming into one thing a brand new period.
Whereas this behind-the-scenes work continues, there haven’t any large swings within the switch market but and supervisor Erik ten Hag stays in place, so the crew that took to the pitch for the membership’s first pre-season pleasant on Monday evening was a well-known one.
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The Purple Devils opted to start their summer season programme of friendlies in Norway for a conflict in opposition to Rosenborg on the Lerkendal Stadium, struggling a 1-0 defeat that Ten Hag labelled ‘by far not ok’.
The English facet, which featured the likes of Marcus Rashford , Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Jonny Evans, Mason Mount and Casemiro of their beginning line-up, have been dominated by the hosts and would ultimately go down 1-0 after a stoppage time strike from Noah Holm.
The rating solely tells half of the story nevertheless, as one in every of Manchester United’s key failings from final season was once more on show.
Casemiro began the pre-season pleasant (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Ten Hag’s males conceded 58 occasions within the Premier League final season on their strategy to registering a damaging purpose distinction for the primary time within the competitors, and we nineteenth within the league for pictures conceded on their very own purpose.
Fixing the defence and ensuring that woeful statistic shall be one in every of Ten Hag’s essential jobs this summer season, however he may barely have gotten off to a worse begin, as his facet conceded 22 pictures on purpose and the publish 4 occasions.
The crew conceded 20 or extra pictures on purpose in 15 video games final time period within the Premier League, once more underlining how a lot of a problem this has been for the crew.
Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag alongside Sir Jim Ratcliffe (Picture credit score: Getty Pictures)
Ten Hag spoke after the match to demand an enchancment from his gamers after they tackle Rangers at Murrayfield on Saturday, which comes earlier than their pre-season tour to america.
“The end result is just not secondary,” the supervisor informed MUTV. “After all, we play pre-season, however at Man United the usual is you win video games and positively don’t lose video games. So for those who can’t win, don’t lose the sport, like we did within the final second of the sport, however after all, the efficiency is extra necessary and the efficiency was beneath requirements.”
We will discuss [about] all the things that’s dangerous, however I’m not that man. I’ve seen and this isn’t the usual for high soccer. Prime soccer, it’s important to obtain a lot increased requirements, begins with any particular person, be sure you are match.
“I do know we are able to’t be match-fit on this second, I do know you want these video games. The opponent is [playing already] within the league, in order that they have a a lot increased health stage –however we’re Man United and may carry out higher.”
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