Ten Hag wants Manchester United to be more ruthless up front
Manchester United manager Eric Ten Hag says his team should have beaten Nottingham Forest with more goals.
eased past Nottingham Forest with three goals on Tuesday. Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial scored in the first half and Fred scored the third goal late in the second half.
"We created so many chances and it takes us until just before the end to score the third goal. We need to finish this game in an earlier moment.
"Just after half-time we had two really good chances to finish the game. Life would be more easy.
"There are many games to come, [if you get a third goal then] you can then save energy and it is better for everyone, but also for the progress of the team, we need to be more clinical.
"We have players who can score.
"You can see Martial and Rashford are goalscorers; Bruno Fernandes scores goals. We have a lot of players who can score, but we have to be ruthless."
Manchester United was heavily linked with PSV forward Cody Gakpo in recent weeks but Liverpool managed to sign him. Ten Hag was asked about the failure to sign Gakpo and whether they sign another attacker.
"I don't talk about individual cases,"
he said.
"We are looking for offensive players, we are looking for a striker. It would be good because we have games coming, so many, every third day, and it's tough.
"You want to play in all the competitions we are in, we want to stay in them hopefully until the end of the season, so you need numbers in the squad to cover them all.
"I think we are always in the market, but it has to match the sporting criteria and the financial criteria, and we do what we can to bring in what we need."
who joined United from Real Madrid last summer was awarded the man of the match award on Tuesday night. The Brazil international attempted more tackles than anyone else and was engaged in the most duels. He also provided the assist for Fred’s goal.
After the game, Ten Hag praised Casemiro’s performance and talked about his importance.
"I can't deny that, I can only confirm,"
Ten Hag replied.
”It's a pleasure to work with him.
"I think everyone can see how important he is. The performance, the level he brings to the team is huge."
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