“We have a lot of problems”
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Manchester United suffered a significant defeat in the Premier League and thus suffered a setback in the race for the European Cup places. At Crystal Palace, coach Erik ten Hag’s team, in whom FC Bayern Munich is interested, lost 0:4 (0:2) on Monday evening. United slipped to eighth in the table and are now two points behind sixth.
Michael Olise (12th/66th minute), Jean-Philippe Mateta (40th) and Tyrick Mitchell (58th) scored for the outsiders in London. The guests from Manchester were lucky on other occasions, with a shot hitting the post in stoppage time. Crystal Palace, who have been coached by former Bundesliga coach Oliver Glasner since the end of February, are still in 14th place, but have scored 13 out of 15 possible points from the last five games.
Ten Hag, who coached FC Bayern’s second team from 2013 to 2015, is considered Munich’s candidate to succeed the outgoing Thomas Tuchel. After Xabi Alonso, Julian Nagelsmann and Ralf Rangnick do not see their future as coaches at FC Bayern, ten Hag is said to have been informed of renewed interest, according to media reports.
Bayern candidate ten Hag comments on the future at Manchester United
“I’m not thinking about it,” said ten Hag after the final whistle when asked about the speculation and his future and emphasized that he wanted to keep fighting. “I prepare the team as best as I can. We have many problems. I’m just focused on getting better with my team. All I think about is making my team better. I have to take responsibility for it, but I will find energy and prepare them for the game on Sunday.” Then Man United will face leaders Arsenal FC.
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“We didn’t play the way we wanted and that’s nowhere near good enough,” emphasized ten Hag, who didn’t allow the absence of some regular players as an excuse. “As Man United we should perform better. The players who were available should do better. It’s a deserved defeat. The performance wasn’t what we expected.” The Red Devils have only won one of their last seven Premier League games.
“We have had big problems all season and this is now the fourth defeat in this calendar year, which is not much,” said ten Hag, who admitted: “We had big problems every time and we often got it under control again receive. Today we don’t have that.” At least United still has the chance in the FA Cup final against city rivals City to bring their weak season to a reconciliatory end with a title. Under ten Hag, the Red Devils have scored an average of 1.91 points in 110 games since the summer of 2022. In addition to the European Cup participation, which is still open, the exit as bottom of the group in the Champions League was particularly difficult to digest this season.