Erik ten Hag insists it would be an overachievement if Manchester United won the FA Cup final this season.
05.04.2024 - 03:31 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Erik ten Hag lamented the decision-making of the Manchester United players after their extraordinary 4-3 defeat to Chelsea.
United conceded goals in the 110th and 111th minute to Cole Palmer, who completed a remarkable hat-trick to inflict a 12th Premier League defeat on Ten Hag's side this season.
Brentford claimed a 99th-minute equaliser against United on Saturday and Chelsea became the third domestic side to secure victory against them through an added-time goal this season after Arsenal and Fulham.
Diogo Dalot clumsily conceded a penalty that Palmer converted to make it 3-3 and the right back embarked on a desperate raid from the restart that Chelsea counter-attacked from. An unmarked Palmer then received the ball from a corner and hit a deflected winner past Andre Onana.
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"Of course, that frustrates me the most," Ten Hag said on the stoppage-time goals. "We started the game poor, making individual errors.
"But by that moment already I had the feeling we are dominating the game and we fought ourselves back into the game. We make ourselves in a winning position by very good football, sometimes brilliant football, scoring great goals.
"And then in stoppage time we didn't manage it, we didn't bring the win over the line and of course, that's frustrating. I don't know what it is but what it is that you have to do your job and they know their jobs and then you have to make the right decisions.
"And we didn't make the right decisions, we didn't react quick enough to avoid this situation.
"I said today to the players, on decision-making, we have to make better decisions, it's our strength. You saw
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