Manchester United “can beat anyone” when the team plays “at their best”, their coach Erik ten Hag said on Tuesday, after the stunning 3-2 victory against Aston Villa, third in the Premier League.
“I said before the match that we were competitive against Arsenal, against Liverpool, and that if we play at our best, we can beat anyone,” he said on the microphone of the broadcaster Amazon Prime, asked about the speech given to his players.
“Believe in this, even when you are 2-0 down, it doesn’t matter. Keep moving forward, show character, and today they showed that we have the personality to do it,” he further explained. Manchester United “played really well” in the first half but went into the locker room with a two-goal deficit “because of two set pieces, at times when we weren’t really focused,” he said. rewound.
“At halftime I told the team: keep believing, keep doing what you’ve been doing, do some more, even . We had to put even more pressure,” said the Dutch coach.
The scorer of the victory, Rasmus Hojlund, described himself as “the happiest of men” on the broadcaster’s microphone. “You can see it watching the celebration too. As (Garnacho) said, we believed in ourselves until the end and we got the victory.”
Criticism began to rise around the 20-year-old Danish striker, recruited for 75 million euros this summer, and who had never scored until now in the league.
“As the manager said, I scored a few goals in the Champions League, but of course it took a while in the Premier League before I scored. Now I’ve done it, I hope I can build on it and move forward,” said the former Atalanta Bergamo player.