Brighton Defeated Subscription, Ten Hag Says Manchester United Failed To Focus

Manchester United coach Erick Ten Hag (@ManUTD)

JAKARTA - Manchester United (MU) coach Erik ten Hag admitted that he was very disappointed that his team failed to get points at all when they were defeated by Brighton & Hove Albion with a score of 1-2 at AMEX Stadium, Saturday, August 24.

Danny Welbeck opened Brighton's lead in the 32nd minute after leveraging Mythoma's pass. MU, who made several changes in the second half then equalized in the 60th minute through Amad Diallo's goal.

The score looks like it will end 1-1, but Joao Pedro's goal in the 90+5 minute sent United home from the away game with no points.

"I'm disappointed that we should have won at least a draw. We should have won, but in the end you didn't get points and it's disappointing because things could be very different," Ten Hag said on the club's official website, quoted on Sunday, August 25.

As an evaluation, the Dutch coach considered his team to have conceded too easily by means of an easy goal. According to him, the two goals should have been avoided.

"We conceded two goals that were unnecessary, very avoidable. That's how we feel, we conceded two soft goals where we had to act better as a team," he added.

The Reds Devils actually turned 2-1 ahead in the 72nd minute. However, the goal scored by Alejandro Garnacho was disallowed because it hit Joshua Zirkzee who was offside.

"It was touched by Zirkzee so it's a shame, you have to accept this, it's disappointing but I can take a lot of positive things from his performance," said Ten Hag.

This defeat made MU drop to eleventh position with three points, with the next match against Liverpool's arch-enemy at Old Trafford on Sunday (1/9).