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Erik ten Hag defends Manchester United training methods amid injuries
03.04.2024 - 22:11 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Erik ten Hag has disputed suggestions Manchester United's training sessions are too intense amid their latest injury crisis.
Centre backs Victor Lindelof (hamstring) and Lisandro Martinez (calf) have been ruled out for a month and Martinez, who has appeared in only 11 of United's 41 matches this season, suffered the setback in training on Tuesday.
Casemiro, who never had a muscular injury during his eight-year career at Real Madrid, is believed to have partly blamed the intensity of United's training sessions on his hamstring problems this season. The 32-year-old was sidelined for two-and-a-half months with a hamstring injury and a recurrence of the issue caused him to miss the FA Cup quarter-final victory over Liverpool last month.
United have recorded 53 separate cases of injury and illness that have caused players to miss games this season and they will be without an entire back four for the Premier League fixture away to Chelsea on Thursday night.
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"No, we don't train too hard," Ten Hag stressed. "We need to be fit. With the standards in this league, you need to be fit. Otherwise you can't match the standards you are required in a game. We don’t train too hard."
Ten Hag also insisted it was not an issue that he did not add his own fitness coach to United's backroom staff. "No. We have good departments, we have good people around with a lot of knowledge. Based on data we make our decisions."
United played 62 games last season and the most they can play this season is 52. Their complete elimination from European competition has given United freer midweeks this calendar year but Ten Hag is adamant the
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