Ten Hach: “I don’t know why my players aren’t running, I’ve been putting them under pressure since the start of the season”

Manchester United coach Erik ten Hag admitted in his press conference ahead of the away game at Burnley that he is still looking for the reason why his team’s performances have fallen this season and the players are no longer running and pressing as much.

Their start is not reminiscent of last year’s team, which finished third in the Premier League, won the League Cup and reached the FA Cup final. In contrast, United have lost their last three games this year and have conceded 16 goals in their six games.

“It’s always worrying when we don’t play, but I don’t think that was the case against Bayern apart from a few occasions.” We didn’t run much against Tottenham.

Last season we had a game where we did the same thing where we didn’t run. But I think against Bayern we did our best physically, but I think we didn’t always run at the right time.

We showed we can do it because we conceded the most goals in the Premier League last year because we defended really well as a team, so we have to get back to that standard.

I challenge the players and have demanded it from the start of the season, but they are people, they are not robots. I’m trying to figure out why this isn’t the case as I try to find and offer solutions her also motivate them to do their work,” said the Dutch coach.