Ten Hag hails 'good game' played by Maguire, Onana with 'important' Man Utd star singled out
Erik ten Hag hailed the value of advise sub Christian Eriksen after his cross installed Harry Maguire for Manchester United’s winning premeditate against Copenhagen.
United picked up their first junctures in their Victors League team in dramatic circumstances.
Maguire led in the lone premeditate of the arcade in the 72nd minutes yet he was not the lone rescuer of the night after Andre Onana saved a penalty using the last kick of the arcade.
The Red Devils were much from their most secure on Tuesday night yet the triumph could nicely be the swivelling time in what has been a displeasing season so much.
Conversing to TNT Sports after the match, United boss 10 Hag said: “Of course it is dazzling and a sweet night. Especially in the passing away 2nd once you acknowledge a penalty, yet a glowing conserve from Andre Onana.
“Those players, Harry Maguire messed around a commendable arcade and Andre Onana as nicely. He rendered an awfully understandable conserve simply after fifty percent-time.
“A corrosive first fifty percent, yet we perpetuated to be sooth and in the 2nd fifty percent we stepped up and rendered more chances than them. It was a slim escape in the end.”
10 Hag praised the advise of Eriksen, who came off the pew to installed Maguire for the winner.
“Horribly awfully understandable, Christian is habitually exact,” the Dutch boss said. “He carries football and we did not have the football in the first fifty percent.
“Copenhagen are nicely arranged and you have to respite them. Christian Eriksen renders the right enacts.”
On team equilibrium, 10 Hag encompassed: “Of course every time we have to readjust the previously jabber up, if you kind previously to last year we owned a awfully commendable previously four and so indefatigable, using Casemiro in front all the time we coordinated the round.
“This season every time we have owned to swap the previously four and then the shows go away and the midfield opens up up, and we fight to avail the right equilibrium.
“We have witnessed games this season in which we have not owned commendable valuables and we lose take care of in midfield. Yet, I am sure once we avail the shows previously in the previously four it delivers the team a underpinning to dabble off.”
Match-winner Maguire admitted United were corrosive in front of premeditate yet insurance claims the win “was theorized to be” in his side’s first abode encounter because the fatality of bar tale Sir Bobby Charlton.
“Silly,” Maguire said. “We have obtained to be more utility provider, we owned numerous counter-strikes and we didn’t confer them a opportunity in the 2nd fifty percent.
“The first fifty percent was in reality corrosive, it was not clean yet an awfully understandable win. This individual [Onana] stepped up and it was a mammoth conserve.”
On the win being for Sir Bobby, he encompassed: “Certainly, it was theorized to be. We were theorized to win the arcade, a majestic conserve and a win transferred out to Sir Bobby and his family members.
“It has been a puzzling week for us away at Sheffield United and wasting somebody favor Sir Bobby, it clouts the cub and the spice discontinuity. Yet in reality contented we could avail the win tonight.”
On the supporters singing his tag, Maguire said: “It is superior. Once you are not on your arcade it carry out makes earn service of of picked up, yet I am in reality hostile and contented how I have rendered assume over this 6 to 12 months.
“I have been established on an avenue and I pine to help the team and avail the bar previously to in which it need to be.”
On his crucial penalty conserve in the seventh minutes of injury time, Onana said: “I’m simply implementing my work, the most awfully understandable point is to win against a puzzling team.
“I am contented for the triumph, we did a commendable arcade and a hefty premeditate from Harry [Maguire].
“We are Manchester United. We are a hefty bar, hefty players. It’s simply a complication of time, currently we have to linger favor this. I have no objection we will carry out it.”