Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag used exterior criticism to fireplace up his squad forward of their crunching tie towards Liverpool on Monday, in line with studies.
The supervisor’s unorthodox strategies appear to have labored, with the Pink Devils grabbing a 2-1 win over their rivals.
The Mirror’s David McDonnell reports, “It has emerged the United coach used criticism of his gamers and damning statistics from their opening two defeats to get them in the best mind set to beat Liverpool.”
“A United supply revealed Ten Hag printed off withering quotes from pundits and caught them up on the Pink Devils’ coaching floor advanced and within the dressing room.”
Ten Hag’s facet got here beneath heavy fireplace and intense scrutiny after dropping their two opening video games, together with a 4-0 thumping by the hands of Brentford.
Towards Thomas Frank’s males, statistics confirmed that the Reds had been outrun by a big margin, which led to them being on the tip of scathing assaults from supporters and pundits alike.
“A few of the quotes made by pundits and displayed by Ten Hag included: “United merely aren’t ok.”
Others included, “Liverpool to win 5-0 once more”, “Can’t run”, “not a workforce” and “they may go down”.
“Ten Hag additionally printed off statistics – together with distance coated, passing percentages, clearances and ball recoveries – and displayed them across the coaching floor each day, to point out his gamers how poor they’d been in comparison with different groups.”
“The transfer was designed to point out the squad the extent it wanted to get to beat Liverpool.”
“It labored. United coated extra distance – 114km – and made 51 extra sprints than Klopp’s males of their deserved win, their first beneath Ten Hag.”
Actually, Ten Hag has proven he can get a response from his gamers if the report by McDonnell is something to go by. Followers will probably be hoping that this impact will be extended throughout the remainder of the season.
