Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United’s 2-2 draw with Aston Villa in Australia will present essential expertise for the forthcoming season, following a second-half fightback from Steven Gerrard’s aspect.
Jadon Sancho scored his third purpose in 4 pre-season video games with a first-half volley, which was added to by an personal purpose, however Leon Bailey pulled one again for Villa within the second half earlier than Calum Chambers’ equaliser within the dying moments.
The draw ends United’s excellent pre-season run up to now, having gained every of their three video games previous to the conflict in opposition to their fellow Premier League aspect, however Ten Hag has seen the positives and believes the setback can present an training for the upcoming season.
“First half, it was a good efficiency, second half, we got here again out of the dressing room and we needed to management the sport however we gave it away. That’s no good, so that could be a lesson,” he advised MUTV.
“From the gamers, the workforce, I believe there was quite a lot of progress. There’s been some optimistic features.
“In the long run there was a setback however that can also be part of the season as a result of a season will not be all the time getting up, additionally, you will have setbacks that you must cope with.”
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United face Atletico Madrid in Oslo later this week of their penultimate pre-season match, earlier than bringing their preparations for 2022-23 to a detailed in opposition to Rayo Vallecano at Outdated Trafford subsequent Sunday, and Ten Hag has outlined how he needs his workforce to proceed to play in these video games.
“We now play a special kind of soccer in opposition to completely different methods, I believe that can even be the case once we play the 2 Spanish groups,” he added.
“What we wish is to play proactive soccer, we need to play with initiative, we need to play attacking soccer. That can also be what we have now seen at the moment over an extended interval however ultimately, you must management the sport and that’s what we didn’t do.”
