Erik ten Hag prepares to face his most painful contrast as Man Utd future looks bleak
As Erik ten Hag walked into the Manchester United dressing room, he knew what he wanted to say. He was deeply irritated by decisions players took at key moments in the 4-3 defeat to Chelsea, feeling these were the details on which the game turned.
That might be fair enough, if this wasn’t part of a much wider trend. Ultimately, far too many United under Ten Hag devolve into chaos. Most of them seem to start like that, as was after just four minutes. If the problem really is players not executing what Ten Hag wants, it is probably more his problem than theirs, at least after two years. A fundamental of the job is literally to make them understand. Instead, nobody seems to really understand what Ten Hag’s system is. It is hard to describe, much less see.
