{"id":8598,"date":"2023-11-12T16:12:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/12\/man-united-manager-ten-hag-remains-defiant-after-suspension\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T16:12:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T10:42:46","slug":"man-united-manager-ten-hag-remains-defiant-after-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/12\/man-united-manager-ten-hag-remains-defiant-after-suspension\/","title":{"rendered":"Man United manager Ten Hag remains defiant after suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag was in defiant mood after being handed a touchline suspension following his team\u2019s 1-0 Premier League victory over Luton Town on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman was shown his third yellow card of the season as Victor Lindelof scored the only goal to earn United its second league win in a row to lift the gloom at Old Trafford after United\u2019s poor start to the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/raphael-dwamena-dies-after-cardiac-arrest-on-the-pitch-albania-superliga-kf-egnatia-heart-attack\/article67525712.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghana striker Raphael Dwamena dies at 28 after suffering a cardiac arrest mid-game<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a certain point you have to accept decisions, I should do as well,\u201d Ten Hag told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag, booked for arguing about a throw-in decision late in the game, will have to watch from the stands when United travel to Everton on November 26.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a very competent coaching staff and they will take over, and of course up to a certain point I can be involved,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>United\u2019s second successive Premier League victory gave Ten Hag and his team a bit of breathing room as defender Lindelof\u2019s rare 59th-minute goal sent the fans home happy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have made life more easy when you score goals, but I think we create many chances,\u201d Ten Hag said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to fight until the end and then it\u2019s maybe not the prettiest, but I\u2019m happy that we created many chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rasmus Hojlund, who scored twice in Wednesday\u2019s Champions League loss at Copenhagen and had a couple of excellent chances against Luton, went straight for treatment after Ten Hag took him off late in the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this moment I can\u2019t tell anything about it because I don\u2019t know, he did an assessment, but you have to wait for 24 hours, what is the conclusion,\u201d Ten Hag said.<\/p>\n<p>Luton has mustered only one win in its debut Premier League season and faces a tough challenge to retain its place in the top flight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI go into every game believing that we can win or get something from it,\u201d Luton manager Rob Edwards said. \u201cBut it is just a huge challenge, the Premier League is so so difficult. The players are really good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis club (United) are in a difficult moment, the expectation\u2019s on them today, credit to them, they won the game. We fought really, really hard and showed a lot of good qualities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutchman was shown his third yellow card of the season as Victor Lindelof scored the only goal to earn United its second league win in a row to lift the gloom at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}