Manchester United manager Erik Ten Hag concluded his team had been naïve in allowing Wolves to equalize before youngster Kobbie Mainoo’s last-gap winner sealed a nervy 4-3 win at Molineux Stadium.
United threw away a two goal lead twice during the match, with Wolves coming back from 2-0 and 3-1 down before Pedro Neto’s stoppage time equalizer.
For all of United’s dominance, they failed to convert their opportunities, which left Ten Hag displeased.
“I have mixed feelings. One side, very pleased. Of course it’s a massive win and I think for a neutral fan, a spectator of this game, it was great to see.
But as a manager, when you see you dominate a game for an hour, you should go 3-0 or 4-0 by the hour, and then the way we concede the goals we should manage that better on the pitch. This can’t happen,” lamented Ten Hag.
Ten Hag singled out striker Marcus Rashford for praise after he opened the scoring at Molineux. Rashford was restored to the starting line-up following his punishment for visiting a nightclub in Belfast last week. The player had communicated to the club that he was too ill to train.
“You see the spirit of the team and the resilience and especially in Kobbie Mainoo, that is great to see.
We have the right character, the spirit in the dressing room is very good when you can show this. I think the whole team played very good, Rashy as well,” added Ten Hag.
Ten Hag lamented United’s poor concentration which the club surrender a two goal lead twice during the match.
‘We should have managed the game better. We have to hammer out these mistakes, they can’t happen. We had some more stages in the games in the season as well. What is asked is leadership and it can’t be that this happening that you concede such goals. That is one story.
I said I have mixed feelings about this and I am very happy with the team perfomance
and some individual perfomances from our side.”
