6
Erik ten Hag says it may take “weeks” for Casemiro and Lisandro Martinez to be able to play for Manchester United once more.
Talking on the pre-match press convention forward of tomorrow’s FA Cup tie towards Wigan Athletic, the supervisor was first requested about Rasmus Hojlund, who missed the Nottingham Forest sport with sickness.
“No, he’ll return,” he mentioned.
“He dropped out shortly earlier than the [Forest] sport, he was unwell for that sport. The day earlier than we anticipated him to play, however he dropped out shortly earlier than the sport. He’s now again in coaching.”
Casemiro and Lisandro Martinez have each returned to full coaching however Ten Hag confirmed that they won’t be out there for tomorrow.
“They’re a very long time now again on the grass already, however now they’ve returned to crew coaching. Not absolutely however partial and now they must make the following steps that in fact takes some days, I believe even weeks,” he mentioned.
The supervisor was additionally requested about what went fallacious for Donny van de Beek at United. The participant has simply accomplished a six-month mortgage transfer to Eintracht Frankfurt.
“From the second I got here right here at Man United, he wasn’t the participant I had at Ajax as a result of he was injured and so many instances he was unavailable,” Ten Hag defined.
“Then he struggled for a very long time with recovering from that harm. So I believe that’s most likely the principle purpose for why he wasn’t taking part in.
“Then we selected a mortgage in the summertime and nothing got here, then his alternatives have been so few as a result of additionally we made appointments and agreements with gamers and there was battle in these positions, the competitors was excessive.”
Ten Hag additionally went into extra element about his impressions of INEOS, who can be taking up soccer operations on the membership.
“From my talks [with INEOS] I had a improbable feeling after it. How their personalities and concepts have an effect on the method they need to go in. So I’m very constructive about that and I’m positive will probably be useful to Manchester United.”
The Dutchman was requested what he felt about gamers not desirous to danger their careers by taking part in for United.
“That’s at all times on the gamers and what [kind of] confidence you could have. Your capabilities,” he replied.
“I can inform you one factor and that’s that the Premier League is hard and at Man United it’s powerful to play right here, as a result of in each different crew it’s simpler to play there as a result of there may be much less stress. It’s so excessive and it’s a must to cope with that.
“However when you’ve got confidence in your self, than I believe that is the very best problem. Undoubtedly it’s the finest membership you need to be at and that relies upon from participant to participant, it’s also concerning the character. The persona of the participant.”
One reporter requested how vital tomorrow’s sport is, on condition that the FA Cup is the one trophy United have left to combat for.
“We nonetheless have the Premier League, so we’ve got two trophies to play for. We are going to play for the Premier League and for the FA Cup,” the boss replied.
On tomorrow’s opponents, he mentioned:
“We are going to face an opponent who’s 100% [ready] and can give greater than 100%, as each opponent goes greater than 100% towards Manchester United. However particularly this time and we’ve got to be properly ready for the sport.”
