Manchester United manager, Erik Ten Hag, has a lot in his mind today, as his squad team will take on Chelsea at Stamford Bridge being the first match in the Premier League since the beginning of the EPL new campaign 2022/2023 season.
Ten Hag flashback, given analysis on how he was defeated by Graham Potter when he was Brighton manager, saying is looking increasingly settled, so it’s easy to forget what a rocky start he got off to in the Premier League.
His Red Devils were beaten by Graham Potter’s Brighton on the opening day of the season at Old Trafford, in what felt like an important moment for both.
Potter’s team kept up that early form and did well enough for him to be given the Chelsea job a month later.
Ten Hag has since stabilized things and now has his United team looking really good.
Tomorrow, the Dutchman gets the chance to face Potter again, and he referenced that first game in his comments in the press conference today.
Erik ten Hag on Graham Potter:
“Now I know more about him and maybe in the first game [vs Brighton] he knew more about me, Manchester United. It is not a fight between managers.”
His argument was that he was new to the league then, and Potter knew more about him than he knew about Potter.
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Today we will find out if the Manchester United manager, Ten Hag ready to stop Chelsea under Graham Potter care to defeats or not, let learnt what the Dutchman has put in place in his first few months in the Premier League.