– Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag stated a scarcity of self perception price his aspect on Sunday as they slumped to a 2-1 residence defeat by Brighton & Hove Albion of their Premier League opener.
Brighton’s Pascal Gross scored twice within the first half earlier than an Alexis Mac Allister personal objective gave United a glimmer of hope within the 68th minute, however Brighton held on for his or her first ever win at Outdated Trafford.
“I feel it was begin after which after (the primary objective) we dropped down a degree, dropped down in perception and we made errors and the opponent punished us,” Ten Hag informed reporters.
“We dropped down in perception within the first half and that can't occur, you at all times need to consider in your self and stick collectively as a crew.
“We got here again within the second half and we needed to consider on the pitch and that was good to see. They need to take care of these setbacks and provides themselves perception as a result of they're actually good gamers.”
Ten Hag defended his resolution to begin with Cristiano Ronaldo on the bench, saying the Portugal worldwide was not able to play a full match after skipping United’s pre-season tour to Thailand and Australia.
Christian Eriksen was as a substitute deployed as a ‘false 9’, with Ronaldo approaching within the 53rd minute.
“If there was an out there striker, I might have performed him,” Ten Hag stated. “Ronaldo is now perhaps for 10 days in crew coaching and too brief for 90 minutes, so that's the reason we didn’t begin him.
“We thought-about Marcus Rashford as a striker however he had a extremely good season on the left aspect and he had two actually good probabilities, however the typical 9 wasn’t out there at the moment.”
United subsequent face Brentford within the league on Aug. 13.
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