Erik ten Hag was left bemoaning a number of choices he felt went towards his Manchester United facet as they sank to a dramatic late defeat at Arsenal.
Stoppage-time strikes from Declan Rice and Gabriel Jesus secured a 3-1 win for the hosts, who had equalised by means of Martin Odegaard simply 110 seconds after Marcus Rashford had opened the scoring for United.
The late double would have been much more galling for the away facet as substitute Alejandro Garnacho thought he had gained it along with his personal strike, solely to see it dominated out by an in depth offside VAR name.
That was simply one of many shut choices ten Hag believes fell in Arsenal’s favour because the Red Devils slipped to a second defeat of the season in north London.
The Dutchman additionally felt Kai Havertz ought to have been booked for diving after seeing a penalty award overturned by VAR and that Rice’s objective took place solely as a result of Jonny Evans had been fouled – whereas he known as for debutant Rasmus Hojlund to have been given a spot-kick of his personal.
“The performance was right but the result was not on our side and definitely many decisions were against us,” he mentioned.
“Let’s begin on the penalty given however rejected. Everyone can see it’s a simulation however he didn’t get booked for it.
“Then the foul on Hojlund within the penalty space and I don’t assume it was even observed by the VAR. Then the disallowed objective from Garnacho.
The efficiency was proper however the end result was not on our facet and positively many selections had been towards us
Erik ten Hag
“I think they looked from the wrong angle and it’s onside. Then the final goal. How can they allow that? It’s a clear and obvious foul on Jonny Evans otherwise he would have blocked the shot from Declan Rice. So it’s a lot.”
Despite the defeat ten Hag felt his staff – with out plenty of injured first-team gamers and having additionally misplaced centre-back pairing Lisandro Martinez and Victor Lindelof to harm and sickness, respectively, throughout the recreation – put in a powerful displaying.
“I also have a good feeling because our performance was very good,” he added.
“I gained’t say it was good as a result of there’s positively room for enchancment. But if we see our compactness, urgent, transferring with the ball and making the counters, very calm, we by no means gave Arsenal a possibility to press us.
There had been a number of positives on this recreation however there’s nonetheless lots to do
Erik ten Hag
“The next stage is we could have done that better and the movement we could have done in the right moments. There were a lot of positives in this game but there is still a lot to do.”
Arsenal have now gained three of their opening 4 video games as Rice as soon as once more shone following his £105million summer time transfer from West Ham.
He topped off a nice show with the necessary second objective as supervisor Mikel Arteta hailed the affect of the England midfielder.
“I think, a tremendous performance,” he mentioned.
“When you look at how a holding midfielder needs to dominate his area, how he needs to break up play, how he glided the team together when they were stretched a bit.
“Then he produced a magic moment to win us the game, so, (I’m) really happy with him.
“He’s a great kid. I think he’s got a good mixture between being extremely demanding with everybody and himself, having a bit of banter and being around the staff and the boys in a really humble way. So I think he’s fitting in brilliantly.”
