{"id":10772,"date":"2023-12-13T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=10772"},"modified":"2023-12-13T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T12:01:44","slug":"ten-hag-claims-united-did-very-well-in-bayern-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/13\/ten-hag-claims-united-did-very-well-in-bayern-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Hag Claims United Did &#8216;Very Well&#8217; in Bayern Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United played &#8220;very well&#8221; in the 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich that saw them knocked out of Europe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>United managed just one shot on target during a low-key game at Old Trafford, decided by Kingsley Coman&#8217;s second-half goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>But the Dutchman was pleased with his side&#8217;s efforts and rued their missed opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>He said: &#8220;I think the defensive organisation and the pressing organisation we did very well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;There was a good intensity to the game and we brought Bayern out of their rhythm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>&#8220;Especially in the first part of the second half, we had the ball high up the pitch but we didn&#8217;t benefit from it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a very good chance with Bruno&#8217;s [Fernandes] shot just over the goal. We had our moments but did not take them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>Ten Hag did concede that winning once and not qualifying from a group featuring Galatasaray and FC Copenhagen was a major disappointment, expressing regret that they did not take advantage of scoring first in all four games against those sides.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>The United boss pointed to injuries as a key reason for their failure but also acknowledged that they should have progressed anyway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"vh paragraph\">\n<p>He said: &#8220;We had opportunities in games when we were in winning positions and we scored many goals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag believes Manchester United played &#8220;very well&#8221; in the 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich that saw them knocked out of Europe. United managed just one shot on target during a low-key game at Old Trafford, decided by Kingsley Coman&#8217;s second-half goal. But the Dutchman was pleased with his side&#8217;s efforts and rued their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[321,432],"class_list":["post-10772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-manchester-united","tag-ten-hag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10934,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10772\/revisions\/10934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}