Ten Hag criticizes Manchester United’s mentality after losing to Arsenal

Eric Ten Hag has accused Man­ches­ter Unit­ed play­ers of not hav­ing the right men­tal­i­ty to win trophies.

After con­ced­ing in the 90th minute and los­ing 3–2 to Arse­nal, the enraged man­ag­er lashed out at his team in the dress­ing room.

“I am angry and I tell my play­ers that if they want to win titles and medals, they have to change their men­tal­i­ty,” Ten Hag said.

Even though it was an impor­tant match, I made a mistake. ”

We start­ed the game very well, scored and won, but then we made a lot of mis­takes and it’s real­ly unacceptable.

“It’s about feel­ing the game and rec­og­niz­ing that you can only score one point at that point, and take that one point.

“Don’t give goals like us or you won’t win trophies.

“We have already seen how the men­tal­i­ty of the play­ers has changed in the last two months.

“They have to under­stand that the match is over only when the ref­er­ee blows the whistle.”

In the 71st minute, Ten­hag seemed sat­is­fied with the tie when mid­field­er Fred was brought in for Anthony.

“I think it was the best set-up to win this match,” said the Dutchman.

“Press” worked. I expect­ed Arse­nal to press a lit­tle dif­fer­ent­ly and could have read the game a lit­tle earlier. ”

Unit­ed now have to focus on Wednes­day’s Carabao Cup semi-final against Not­ting­ham For­est before fac­ing Read­ing in the FA Cup on Saturday.

“The play­ers have to pre­pare for a big week,” added Tenhag.

Defend­er Luke Shaw has admit­ted that Unit­ed are only blam­ing themselves.

“In the sec­ond half, maybe we deserved it,” he said.

“We got a lit­tle pas­sive and they con­trolled the game. It’s a ter­ri­ble sto­ry to con­cede a goal at the last minute.

We knew they were a very good team, so we fought until the last second. ”

“In a game like this, you have to be focused the whole game.

“Every­one in the dress­ing room is shocked that we con­ced­ed so late.