Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag has insisted he is not going to make any excuses if his facet fail to beat struggling Leeds United at dwelling within the Premier League on Wednesday despite the fact that they’re with out quite a lot of key gamers.
United’s midfield linchpin Casemiro is suspended for the subsequent three matches after being despatched off in Saturday’s 2-1 win over Crystal Palace, whereas midfielder Scott McTominay and forwards Anthony Martial and Antony will miss the sport with accidents.
Artistic midfielders Christian Eriksen and Donny van de Beek are out with long-term accidents.
“We now have a squad, we’ve got many good gamers out there in that squad, who aren’t all the time within the beginning 11. So others get the prospect,” Ten Hag informed a information convention on Tuesday.
“After the sport, I am unable to say ‘Casemiro just isn’t there, Anthony Martial just isn’t there’. No, we’ve got to win. This squad, all gamers are Man United succesful, in order that they should carry out tomorrow and we’ve got to win the video games, irrespective of who’s approaching the pitch.”
The supervisor additionally confirmed United had no plans to enchantment the purple card towards Casemiro, saying the membership didn’t imagine it might achieve success.
Wednesday’s match was speculated to happen final September however was postponed after the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II.
Ten Hag’s facet will play Leeds once more on Sunday, aiming to proceed their outstanding run of kind which has lifted them to 3rd place within the Premier League desk, eight behind leaders Arsenal.
Leeds sacked American coach Jesse Marsch on Monday, a day after a 1-0 loss at Nottingham Forest prolonged their winless run within the league to seven matches and left them seventeenth within the standings on 20 factors, solely above the relegation zone on objective distinction.
Leeds’ under-21 coach Michael Skubala will take cost of the sport at Previous Trafford alongside Marsch’s former assistants Paco Gallardo and Chris Armas.
Ten Hag mentioned he was unhappy to be taught of Marsch’s dismissal, including {that a} change in coach mid-season doesn’t normally result in higher outcomes.
He additionally refused to be drawn on the fees towards United’s rivals Manchester Metropolis, who the Premier League accused on Monday of greater than 100 alleged breaches of finance guidelines.
“I’m not right here for rules. I’m a soccer supervisor. I stick with that,” he mentioned.