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Rob Dawson, Correspondent
Scott McTominay has stated the Manchester United gamers are absolutely behind supervisor Erik ten Hag forward of their make-or-break Champions League conflict with Bayern Munich on Tuesday.
McTominay stated that the environment within the dressing room has been “poisonous” beneath former managers however says it has not reached that stage beneath Ten Hag.
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United are plotting an unlikely path into the spherical of 16 of the Champions League, needing to beat Bayern at Previous Trafford on Tuesday and hope FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray draw within the different sport in Group A.
“It’s the gamers’ duty, firstly,” McTominay advised a information convention on Monday.
“The gamers know that as properly. We’ve got had many superb gamers and proper now we’re on the stage the place we’ve got large characters within the dressing room.
“It’s not only a case like a few of the different managers the place it has been slightly bit poisonous at occasions, the boys are firmly behind the supervisor.
“I’ve stated that in lots of different interviews and that’s the manner it’s going to keep. We’ve got bought an incredible teaching workers as properly so it may possibly get misplaced in translation with what the gamers suppose and what’s stated behind closed doorways, we simply wish to do properly for the soccer membership.”
Saturday’s defeat to Bournemouth was United’s eleventh in simply 23 video games this season as Ten Hag’s group has struggled to construct on the positivity of the Dutchman’s first marketing campaign in cost.
They’ve already misplaced six dwelling video games this season and must inflict Bayern’s first Champions League group stage defeat since 2017 to have any hope of continuous within the competitors.
“What I do know is I by no means consider a unfavourable situation,” Ten Hag stated.
“We expect positively. We all know what to do, we’ve got to win to remain in Europe, it is about that. We’ll put together the group with that feeling, with that perception, we’ve got proven within the final weeks once we are at our greatest we will do it.”
Bayern head into the sport on the again of a 5-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, whereas Ten Hag, regardless of dropping to Bournemouth, is taking positives from final week’s 2-1 win over Chelsea.
“We’ve got to indicate them [the players] the clips from Chelsea,” Ten Hag stated.
“How they’ll play, if we do this, all there, and we’ve got a superb plan and, as I stated, we will beat any opponent.
“I feel Previous Trafford will not be a pleasant place to come back for an opponent. We know it and it begins with us. We’re collectively and so long as I’m right here I’ve the sensation we’re completely collectively.”
United enter the sport with considerations over their goalscoring choices, with forwards Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial each lacking coaching on Monday by sickness.
