According to Tasnim news agency, Manchester United football team head coach Eric Tenhach told reporters after the Red Devils lost 2-1 in the home game yesterday (Sunday) against Brighton in the first week of the English Premier League, which was his first official game in this team. I think that we had a good start in this game until the confidence and self-belief of the team’s players suddenly fell and because of this we made some mistakes and the opponent took full advantage of them. I know the reason for the team’s confidence drop and that was because of the events of the last season, but it really shouldn’t have happened. The players in our team are good players. Self-confidence is something that a person must build in himself.
Ten Hach added: I know that these things can happen, but I believe that we should have done better than this. There is no doubt about it. But this is not something that happens overnight. The worst part of our game was in the first half and we must learn from it. This is also very clear.
Defending his decision to bench Cristiano Ronaldo and use Christian Eriksen as a false striker until the start of the second half when the 37-year-old Portuguese star came on, the Dutch manager of Man United said: “If we had a striker, I would have played him.” Cristiano Ronaldo has only joined the training for 10 days and it is too early for him to play 90 minutes. So I had a reason not to include him in the main team. We have two strikers (Anthony Martial who is injured and Ronaldo) and maybe we can say three (referring to Marcus Rashford). We consider him to be a good striker, but the fact is that he had a good season as a left winger and scored two very good chances in this game, but for this game, a player that we can say specializes in the position of striker. We did not have
