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Manchester United defender Matthijs de Ligt has emphasised that he’s to not blame for Erik ten Hag’s sacking as membership boss.
Ten Hag was sacked late final month, following a string of poor performances and outcomes, the end result of which was a 2-1 loss by the hands of Premier League strugglers West Ham.
The defeat was a controversial one as West Ham have been awarded a doubtful late penalty that finally secured all of them three factors on the London Stadium.
There was a coming collectively contained in the field between De Ligt and Danny Ings. Initially, on-field referee David Coote deemed that there was no infringement. Nevertheless, VAR official Michael Oliver intervened and instructed Coote to move to the monitor for additional evaluation.
Inevitably, Coote reversed his authentic choice and gave the Hammers a penalty. Jarrod Bowen made no mistake from the spot-kick as he beat Andre Onana. Lower than 24 hours later, United confirmed they’d parted methods with Ten Hag.
PGMOL chief Howard Webb later admitted that it shouldn’t have been a penalty and Oliver was flawed to ship Coote to the pitchside display.
De Ligt, who’s at present away with the Netherlands on worldwide responsibility, spoke to De Telegraaf and mentioned that the blame for Ten Hag’s sacking doesn’t lie with him.
“Usually I’m all the time self-critical and I can get irritated about issues that I don’t do nicely. However right here I couldn’t do something about it, I couldn’t blame myself for it. The referee committee additionally referred to as us to say that it was not a penalty.”
He added about Ten Hag, “He introduced me to Manchester, the purpose was to realize success along with Erik. He has not been very fortunate. We performed nicely in lots of matches, however we didn’t use the possibilities we acquired. It’s a disgrace that it has to finish like this. A dismissal can all the time be fairly onerous. We mentioned some issues.”
De Ligt revealed that he has not but had contact with Ruben Amorim.
“He did nicely at Sporting, hopefully he may take us to the subsequent stage. Amorim will not be my first coach and he won’t be my final coach. I didn’t solely transfer to Manchester United for Ten Hag. It’s nonetheless one of many largest golf equipment on the planet, I feel. I simply must do my very own factor and play nicely myself. I really feel actually match now and issues are going nicely. Hopefully I can proceed that.”
In September, De Ligt endured a troublesome worldwide break, making quite a few high-profile errors in video games in opposition to Bosnia and Herzegovina and Germany.
These errors led to hypothesis over his place with the nationwide group. Based on the participant, a lot of the criticism geared toward him is all the way down to his early breakthrough at Ajax, which got here with heightened expectations.
“After all you’re disenchanted as a result of it was a type of likelihood for me. And I truly performed nicely. It’s a part you’re in. I hadn’t performed many minutes then. I do know that I’m a participant who wants minutes. Now I’ve performed seven occasions in a row and I discover that I’m stepping into my rhythm.”
“Due to the previous, one thing is anticipated of me, which is working in opposition to me a bit for the time being. The expectations have been very excessive once I left the Netherlands, which signifies that it shortly turns into not ok. That’s the troublesome half.”
He defined that he’s not frightened about competitors and he feels actually good for the time being due to how nicely issues are going at United.
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