Eriksen blunder hands Twente equaliser against Man Utd in Europa League – reaction

X or no longer lower than its loudest mouths are calling for Ten Hag to be sacked, Bruno Fernandes, Harry Maguire and Marcus Rashford to be dropped. 

We’re largely disappointed as a team. We wanted extra but it modified into once no longer fair actual sufficient. We talked about in the dressing room that it felt  fancy they wanted it higher than us. Each person looks to be looking at themselves. We didn’t lose but it feels fancy a loss and that’s something against Twente that can presumably presumably’t happen.

Their gamers, subs and group link palms and stroll in direction of their followers who give them a hero’s reception. They raise their armj to orchestrate roars and pose for a community photo in entrance of their supporters who raise their scarves. 

They’ll’t steal their prospects and which potential of this truth remain liable to individual mistakes. Twente deserved the point for the plot they played. They were refined in defence and harmful on the counter. Their followers are delirious. United huffed and puffed but nothing extra. 

Bruno rolls it to Mazraoui who wall-passes it support to him and the United captain spoons a shot straight down Unnerstall’s throat. And that’s that. 

Ugarte has a pot shot from 22 yards and bends it over the bar.  United free-kick 35 yards out, dull centre for Lagerbielke’s gross. 

Intellectual save from Unnerstall with his tungsten left wrist levering out MAguire’s deflected header that modified into once spearing in direction of the bottom actual nook.  

Mount will get down the ideally suited and crosses. Mainoo controls it, support to operate but sooner than he can spin Hilgers telescopes out a leg to knock it away. Help comes Mazraoui and earns a tenth United nook. 

Garnacho bombs down the left and makes a spread of ground but can’t beat Van Rooij and United may maybe presumably presumably bear a nook. Twente pack the box and gaze the nook off.

Four minutes of stoppage time are signalled on the board. 

Mainoo runs down the left and tees up Dalot for a shot that hits Hilgers flush in the mooey and bounces off safely to the United actual. 

Genuine pass from Ugarte, diagonally from actual to the left of the D and Mainoo runs on to it, takes the defender’s bump and goes sprawling. The now wide awake residence followers holler for a penalty but it wasn’t, it modified into once a flop. 

Van Wolfswinkel is booked for grabbing Hojlund in a endure hug to pause him breaking distinct from halfway. 

Lagerbielke ⇢Lammers
Besselink ⇢ Regeer

Bruno Fernandes whips a actual-foot shot from the ideally suited of the D the negative aspect (whereas you happen to’re a United fan) of the left put up, fizzing handiest inches by the crossbar and put up. 

Lammers makes the negative decision when in a harmful dispute with alternate solutions ahead in Rots and Van Wolfswinkel. The Twente followers gasp. 

Lammers is booked for a gross on Bruno Fernandes that looked fancy a tight care for. Perchance he took the ankle, too. 

Ten Hag rings the adjustments. 

Mount ⇢ Zirkzee
Mainoo ⇢ Eriksen
Hojlund ⇢ Rashford

Van Wolfswinkel shoots straight at Onana who sends the ball out to the left and triggers a Rashford counter that Twente cessation down but United recycle the ball and feed Zirkzee to the left of the D and he bustles his plot into the box and thunders a left-foot riser that Unnerstall slaps over the bar. 

Owen Hargreaves tells us that once Ten Hag sent Garnacho on his message modified into once we sustain what we bear got, ‘Defend! Defend! Defend!’  Ach, effectively. 

Twente produce a third sub.

Ltalef ⇢ Van Bergen

Twente practically ruin thru again on the counter, all around the mountainous gap between Martinez and Maguire but produce the wring various. A minute later Maguire makes a crisp and intensely obligatory care for on Rots.  

Man Utd 1-1 Twente (Lammers)  Having scored Eriksen now assists Twente’s equaliser. Van Rooij dribbles ahead, making 40 yards into United’s half of but eventually loses sustain watch over. However Maguire dives in and Eriksen dawdles, turns support to his private operate and is dispossessed by Lammers who bombs in direction of the box, feints to shoot from the inside-actual into the left nook but deceives Onana by wrapping his foot spherical it and hammering it in at the cessation to put up. 

Garnacho ⇢ Dalot.

Mount and Hojlund were additionally warming up. 

Ugarte storms into the box from the ideally suited and earns a nook when Bruns slides in to care for him. United produce a mess of the nook, conceding a free-kick

Zirkzee holds the ball up in the centre-circle and feeds Dalot down the inside-left channel. The beefy-support strides in direction of the box with Rashford keeping tempo in a parallel bustle. He picks up his head and lays it off and Rashford tries to wrap his actual instep around it, aiming for the ideally suited nook of operate, but his shot hits the support-tracking Hilgers. 

Two adjustments for Twente:

Kjolo ⇢ Vlap
Rots ⇢ Steijn. 

Martinez is booked for rashly barging over Lammers as he tried to nip in entrance 30 yards out. Steijm takes the free-kick and and wobbles it at tempo with his laces in direction of the  foot of the ideally suited put up. Onana will get down and pushes it spherical the put up. Ugarte defends the main nook at the value of one other which Hilgers heads over. 

From the nook Maguire’s header is blokcked and rebounds support to him so he hooks a volley on operate but Unnerstall has to transfer handiest a number of inches to his actual to steal it tightly to his chest. 

Bruno dribbles from the centre out to the ideally suited and down the ideally suited-angle of the box but then slips the pass behind Zirksee’s cessation to-put up bustle. 

Amad turns on the turbo, dribbling exclusively with his left but doesn’t hit the ideally suited-foot shot and affords Salah-Eddine sufficient of an opening to present a foremost budge care for. 

Martinez snaps on to a harmful ball curved in from the ideally suited for Van Wolfswinkel, anticipating the flight and stepping out of defence to find there sooner than the historical captain. 

Eriksen and Dalot swap positions momentarily and Dalot scoots ahead down the inside-left channel, making 25 yards and running into the box sooner than being tackled as he misplaced sustain watch over at the worst seemingly moment. 

No adjustments and Bruno kicks-off, knocking the ball support to Onana who pumped it long and United win the 2d ball and begin to probe from halfway. . 

Genuine operate but the match itself has been nothing to yowl about. The Dutch model is compelling with clinical finishing. Without it, there also would maybe be a spread of sterile dominance of ball and territory. 

Rashford wins the defensive header but sends it straight up the chimney and decides to save it behind somewhat than threat anything else. United distinct the 2d nook in extra orthodox style with Ugarte to the fore. 

Twente nook after Lammers strides down the ideally suited wing and Martinez scoots over to care for him. 

No glide yet from Manchester United but there are smiles at the tip of every attacking transfer. They’re 1-0 up but Twente continue to present life refined with penalty box congestion, blocking an Amad shot, a Rashford imperfect and a Bruno effort thru volume of numbers. 

Salah-Eddine makes fair actual ground down the left but instead of rolling it ahead to Van Bergen on the overlap he bends a imperfect from too deep that lets in Onana to skip out and earn it. 

Man Utd 1-0 Twente (Eriksen)  Incredible finish with his actual foot from the left of the box, lashing it into the pause-actual nook with swerve and dip. Hilgers pickle the transfer up inadvertently when the ball came off the exterior of his foot and Dalot’s diligence helped with an abet. 

Rashford reveals his amazing attributes with a menacing imperfect that catches Zirkzee on his heels. Had he been sooner with his cessation to-put up bustle that can presumably presumably were a routine, flicked finish. Rashford flip-flaps the beefy-support and sends him off for an Evening News and a bottle of milk astronomical. 

Rashford and Bruno play ‘After you, Claud’ and let Van Rooij high-tail ahead to the 18-yard line but when he will get there he suffers an assault of vertigo and scuffs his shot that trickles to Onana. 

The rain is support with a biblical vengeance. United are bossing possession but Twente search for harmful on the counter. Ugarte overhits one other chipped pass, the ball skidding off the greasy grass and out for a operate-kick. Eriksen modified into once in dwelling, too. 

Fine save from Unnerstall. The nook is viewed off as is Amad’s imperfect when it modified into once headed out. However Bruno sprays a diagonal to the ideally suited of the box, Lisandro bullets a header support during operate and Hilgers tries to hack it behind but slices it on operate, arrowing in direction of the pause actual nook. Unnerstall has to find up high to his left and slaps it over the bar. 

United free-kick 40 yards out left of centre. Eriksen rolls it down the wing for Rashford who is tackled and so they would maybe presumably presumably bear a throw by the nook flag. The throw goes to Rashford who is tackled again, this time for a nook. 

Ugarte covers a spread of ground and lets in Eriksen to push as much as dovetail with Bruno as a 10 in a 4-1-4-1. 

Robbie Savage, for it is miles he, remarks on how flat Archaic Trafford is and the plot serene the residence followers are. All you may maybe presumably presumably presumably presumably additionally hear are the Twente supporters. 

Eriksen spreads the play from actual to left to Rashford who floats a long imperfect to the a long way put up that ctches the dart and sails out for a operate-kick. 

Amazing work from Amad to sprint down the ideally suited, carve in to beat Salah-Eddine and Vlap and bound a daisy-cutter imperfect that is hacked out to Bruno who shoots into a thicket of Twente defenders and Eriksen is equally thwarted when he has a secod plod. Twente pack the box when uncovered down the flanks making it refined to find a straightforward route thru with a shot. 

Eriksen works a triangular transfer with Rashford and Dalot down the left but Twente take care of the caretaker left-support’s imperfect and begin a thrust up the ideally suited with Van Wolfswinkel who eventually picks out the flying Salah-Eddine. Ugarte closes him down and makes a fierce but ideally suited block-care for in the box that makes one wince. 

Amazing chest pass from Zirkzee diverts Maguire’s pass which is twisted support on to him and he finds Amad with a effectively-positioned headed pass. The winger, haring down the inside actual channel actual on halfway is chopped down to pause him bombing distinct and Bruns is rightly booked for it. 

Rashford, who has had a shot blcoked from 22 yards, plays a one-two with Zirkzee from the left and strides into the box by virtue of the centre-ahead’s cute, flicked return. He picks up his head and appears for Amad but his imperfect is turned away by Hilgers. 

Great likelihood for Twente from the nook which modified into once headed out to the ideally suited. Van Rooij chased it down sooner than Dalot and sweeps in a imperfect that Lammers met at the cessation to put up and opened his stance to ascertain out to steer it into the bottom left nook with his left instep but actual got his angle negative and it whistled during the face of operate.  

Genuine bustle from Salah-Eddine, overlapping the pacy Van Bergen and the winger slips in the left-support to soft-shoe dribble up the byline till tackled by Mazraoui and the ball save out for a nook. 

Ugarte tries to zip a diagonal from actual to left, looking for Rashford. The trajectory is ideally suited but he puts too great oomph on the pass given the slick surface and it races off the pitch into touch. It earns a thumbs up from Rashford nonetheless. 

Twente’s followers are making a spread of noise and their team has started effectively with Hilgers’ fair actual nostril for the ball beating Zirkzee to a pass and using his fair actual sustain watch over to find away. 

Twente kick off. And they also play in red shirts but bear inverted for the away kit in white/red/white and search for fancy Poland. They work the ball flippantly support to Unnerstall who chips it up the ideally suited to halfway. Dalot wins the header at left-support but neither aspect can hang on to the ball and a long pass looking to ship Van Bergen free up the left is overhit into touch. 

And we’ll bear the infrequently praised Europa League anthem to endure sooner than kick-off. 

They bear Spurs as fourth favourites, Manchester United as sixth and Rangers down in Twenty seventh. Slavia Prague, who made it to the R16 remaining twelve months, search for somewhat high to me. 

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Morrissey’s words, no longer mine. Any avenue, it’s siling it down at Archaic Trafford. 

Ten Hag in his programme notes talked about the sustain watch over and form of United’s play, in and out of possession, against Crystal Palace on Saturday modified into once “great nearer to what we would favor to search for the total time” but modified into once again rueful about his aspect’s wastefulness. Ugarte comes in for his 2d begin for the membership and Rashford is support in the starting XI after his shock omission at Palace. Here is a young Twente aspect in the main aside from goalkeeper Lars Unnerstall (37) and feeble Norwich striker, Ricky van Wolfswinkel, now 35.

There are two routes to the Champions League. Surely we would favor to finish in the pause four but there is a dispute by the Europa League as effectively as winning a trophy. We’re going ahead, we are stepping up and are very dominant on the ball. We hope to cessation that this evening. By doing that you may maybe presumably presumably need better rest defence and better on the counter-press. We were overjoyed with the main half of [at Palace] but additionally there are diversified games where we bear got played effectively, the Cup final and additionally the Neighborhood Shield against Chelsea.

[Why didn’t Rashford start against Palace?] I in truth bear additionally to think of Alejandro Garnacho who is additionally at his very finest from the left. He has extra assists and desires from there than anybody. 

It is crucial to dam this [mixed emotions about Twente] and now there is handiest one membership. 

Manchester United  Onana; Mazraoui, Maguire, Martínez, Dalot; Ugarte, Eriksen; Diallo, Bruno, Rashford, Zirkzee.

Twente  Unnerstal; Van Rooij, Hilgers, Bruns, Salah-Eddine; Regeer, Vlap, Steijn; Van Wolfswinkel, Lammers, Van Bergen.

Referee  Simone Sozza (Italy) 

News Ten Hag at Twente

Lurking in the depths of YouTube is a video that delivers a deliciously awkward broadcasting moment. It formula Erik ten Hag from his playing days, when he had actual captained FC Twente to victory over PSV in the 2001 KNVB Cup final, the Dutch similar of the FA Cup. 

It may maybe well maybe presumably presumably presumably additionally be 23 years in the past, but already displaying evidence of significant hair loss, the footballer Ten Hag would now not search for great youthful than he does for the time being as he paces the Archaic Trafford technical dwelling. 

As membership skipper, he modified into once obliged in the instant aftermath of victory to undertake the media tasks on the pitch. Which, on this occasion, consists of engaging with a female reporter who insists on congratulating the victor by smothering him in kisses. When she makes an are trying yet one other smacker, he backs away, suggesting that presumably they must restful actual find on with the interview.

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Genuine evening and welcome to dwell coverage of Manchester United’s first match of their Europa League marketing campaign, at residence against Twente, the boyhood membership of Erik ten Hag who played 234 games during three spells in Enschede. This being the fresh Swiss model Champions League, a needlessly complex ruse designed to shoehorn an additional four teams to unbalance an already bloated competition, every of the 36 qualifiers now has eight matches, six sooner than Christmas, two in January, half of residence and away but against eight diversified opponents, two from every of 4 pots of seeds. 

Both aspect are in one league and the pause eight at the tip of the stage plow thru to the remaining 16 whereas the teams between ninth and Twenty fourth then bear one other two-legged play-off to qualify for the R16. That methodology to win the tournament, these on the suppose route will play 15 games, these on the scenic route 17. Participant fatigue? Who cares…

The house aspect return to Archaic Trafford for the main-time since their 7-0 thrashing of Barnsley in the League Cup washed away about a fifth of the bitter taste of their galling defeat by Liverpool. Since that chastening skills, they bear racked up a number of tidy sheets in the league, beating Southampton 3-0 at St Mary’s and taking a point from a scoreless design with Palace by virtue of their in truth awful finishing. Norman Vincent Ten Hag has taken a spread of positives from these three performances with out convincing all that many who weren’t already favourably disposed to him and his membership that they are any longer coherent tactically on a sustained foundation somewhat than stringing collectively a series of one-offs that include untrue gigantic leaps ahead and exasperating backward lurches.  

Tonight they attain up against a Twente aspect who finished third in the Eredivisie remaining season and are presently fourth after beating Almere 5-0 away on Sunday. They bear the Dutch league’s recent top-scorer, Sem Steijn, in their ranks, the feeble Rangers striker Sam Lammers and are captained by a one that modified into once once Norwich’s narrative signing, scoring on his debut but by no methodology again, Ricky van Wolfswinkel. In seven previous journeys to England in Uefa competition, the Tukkers, finalists in the 1974-75 Uefa Cup, bear drawn two and misplaced 5.