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Erik ten Hag has urged Manchester United’s gamers to observe the instance of skipper Bruno Fernandes to additional embed a successful tradition inside the membership.
The midfielder wore a protecting boot final evening after injuring his ankle throughout United’s FA Cup semifinal win in opposition to Brighton at Wembley on Sunday, however recovered to steer the facet in Thursday’s 2-2 draw with Tottenham.
Fernandes arrange Marcus Rashford to attain after Jadon Sancho had put the customer forward in north London.
But Spurs, from 2-0 down at half-time, recovered to realize a degree due to objectives from Pedro Porro and Son Heung-min.
The consequence left United six factors forward of Spurs and with two video games in hand within the race to complete fourth within the Premier League.
And having already received the League Cup this season, United may full a home cup double after they face native rivals Manchester City in June’s FA Cup remaining at Wembley.
In the meantime, United supervisor Ten Hag stated his gamers may all be taught a lesson from the angle of Fernandes.
“It was tough, a big compliment on Bruno. He absolutely doesn’t want to miss this game and he did everything to get fit.
“I think he is the example, and that you have to suffer and you have to sacrifice when you want to play on the top level, you want to achieve something.
“So once again he showed there how great a captain he is, how he has taken responsibility, even when he is not 100 percent fit.
“But he did the job, he was important in this game as well. Hopefully the team can, not learn, but see him as an inspiration and do the same.”
United’s draw with Spurs was the second time in two weeks it had squandered a two-goal lead, following its collapse in opposition to Sevilla within the first leg of its Europa League quarterfinal.
The crew subsequently slumped to a 3-0 defeat within the return leg in Spain to finish their hopes of European silverware this time period.
United has additionally suffered an embarrassing 7-0 loss to Liverpool in the middle of the present marketing campaign however, as Ten Hag identified, it has overwhelmed the highest two within the Premier League and the La Liga leaders as properly.
“We had some games I like,” stated Ten Hag. “Two weeks ago against (Nottingham) Forest (a 2-0 win), I think that was almost optimum. You see it’s not so easy to play Forest, you see Liverpool struggling, you see Brighton struggling there. That was a very good performance on our side.
“We had more games, I would have to think which games. Especially I think City (at home), that was a brilliant game. We had more, I think Arsenal, both games we played very well. We had many games where we were very dominant.
“Betis, Barcelona. So we had our games where we played very good football,” he added.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com