Erik ten Hag appeared relaxed after Manchester United’s slim win over Omonia Nicosia, nevertheless, Jason Cundy believes followers ought to be ‘involved’ by what they noticed.
The Purple Devils made arduous work of their conflict with the Cypriot facet, securing only a 1-0 win towards the minnows thanks to an stoppage-time winner from substitute Scott McTominay.
Whereas United had greater than 30 pictures on aim and 80 per cent possession through the conflict at Outdated Trafford, followers had been nonetheless pissed off by the shortage of objectives on present.
However the membership’s head coach is backing his group to search out their taking pictures boots in future matches.
Requested if the win is a very powerful factor, Ten Hag advised BT Sport: “No. Soccer is about scoring objectives and we created so many probabilities however the ball solely went within the web one time. It was sufficient for the win and we’re pleased with that.
“I needed to make the group praise, maintain affected person, maintain getting into the suitable positions, maintain creating probabilities and permit the opponent to return out and so I believe that they did one.
“I understand how soccer is and already we’ve scored so many objectives. In each sport we rating and I’ve the religion that we’ll proceed that.
“We’ve got scoring gamers so I’m not involved about this. I hope that we’ve saved the objectives for subsequent week!”
Nevertheless, Jason Cundy wasn’t so satisfied by United’s show, suggesting that the membership’s issues of earlier years are nonetheless there.
Talking on The Sports Bar, Cundy stated: “As everyone knows in soccer, the result’s clearly a very powerful factor, after all it’s and that can by no means change, however there are at all times video games and moments in a group’s season the place you wish to see a greater efficiency and a greater outcome.
“United dominated the sport however they may have dropped factors and people dropped factors might have been deadly.
“They’ll nonetheless high the group, they go to Actual Sociedad and nonetheless must play there, however this a bunch that Manchester United ought to be working away with and so they’re not.
“The issues at United are nonetheless there.
“I believed the efficiency towards Everton on the weekend was fairly poor, I believed that each side had been bang common. Ronaldo acquired the prospect and completed it off, however that might have been a draw.
“It’s in regards to the outcome and the way you carry out and what does the subsequent sport appear like and the sport after that.”
Responding to Jamie O’Hara’s feedback that it’s solely the outcome that issues, Chelsea fan Cundy replied: “Yeah, however in an remoted scenario that dialog is okay, however if you broaden it and also you discuss in regards to the greater image – that’s what soccer is about, the larger image.
“If you wish to speak about tonight’s sport and go away the dialog there with out speaking in regards to the weekend, that’s advantageous, however we don’t and by no means do.
“United followers and each soccer fan at all times has the larger image of their thoughts, what does my membership appear like?
“I’ve achieved it. Look, we’ve acquired Graham Potter in, are we doing okay? Yeah. Are we the place we ought to be? No, we’re not.
“There are nonetheless gamers there who, proper now, aren’t performing to the extent that I need or anticipate them to, and in case you’re an trustworthy soccer fan about your membership and United followers are usually very trustworthy, they need to be saying ‘we acquired out of jail tonight’.
“How can a group like United when enjoying at house towards Omonia Nicosia – a group that genuinely, I’d by no means heard of them earlier than!
“How can this be taking place that Scott McTominay nicks a winner in harm time? If United followers are trustworthy they need to say that they’re involved about their membership.”
