Erik Ten Hag has attributed Manchester United’s woeful season to injuries and is adamant United’s new co-owners will understand the situation.
Man United suffered their latest setback on Saturday. The Red Devils endured a 2-1 loss to Nottingham Forest as they recorded they ninth loss in the league- fourteenth overral.
Marcus Rashford scored his first open play goal since September, but an opening goal from Nicolas Dominguez and a late strike from Morgan Gibbs-White fired Nottingham Forest to a first victory against Manchester United since 1994.
Asked about the root cause for Man United’s underwhelming campaign, Ten Hag told Sky Sports: “The injuries. Also some issues but mainly the injuries hold us back in the process. In January we have a lot of players returning so then our levels can be higher.
“Definitely [Dave Brailsford] will see we have our problems. You want to build on the last result but we have to change our striker.
Rasmus Hojlund who has been playing upfront for United was absent against Nottingham through illness and Ten Hag went on to point out how United has not been able to maintain the same team.
“We haven’t played with the same team in a row. We had to change again so every time we have to swap our team. That doesn’t help or support the routines of the team and it explains why you are so inconsistent.
“We had nine different partnerships in the back. It doesn’t matter as well, the fans don’t want to hear this, they want to see us winning and that is what we have to serve them.”
Man United face Tottenham next in the league. They will hope to start 2024 with a bang. Ten Hat’s team remain the only team in the current top ten with a negative goal difference.
