{"id":447465,"date":"2023-07-30T08:40:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T12:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=447465"},"modified":"2023-07-30T11:47:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T15:47:55","slug":"ten-hag-urges-united-player-to-raise-the-bar-for-next-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ten-hag-urges-united-player-to-raise-the-bar-for-next-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Hag urges United players to &#8216;raise the bar&#8217; for next season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Ten Hag gave positive, but honest opinion on the state, in which Manchester United finds itself at the moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udde3\ufe0f &quot;We have to finish something, then after you can ask the question&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag refuses to comment on incoming signing Rasmus H\u00f8jlund \ud83e\udd10\ud83d\udd34 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hVFEfNR4i6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hVFEfNR4i6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1685614568821702656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Dutchman described his debut season with the Red Devils as one of overall &#8220;progress&#8221; with the team ending a 6-year trophy drought by winning the League Cup and returning to the Champions League by finishing 3rd in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>However, United&#8217;s team boss is not to be carried away by success and urged his players to raise the bar even higher in order to achieve the targets he has set them.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag underlined that last season showed United feared no one, but also lacked consistency, which could be seen on couple of occasions &#8211; the humiliating 7-0 defeat to Liverpool, the painful 3-0 loss to Sevilla, which led to Europa League exit and of course the FA Cup final loss to bitter rivals Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All levels increased immensely and that was necessary. We were more dominant and created many chances.&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But still, we are not where we want to be. We have to raise the bar and go to the next levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last season proved we can beat any opponent and don&#8217;t have to fear anyone. But it also proved we can&#8217;t do it on a consistent basis. That is the step we have to make.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik Ten Hag gave positive, but honest opinion on the state, in which Manchester United finds itself at the moment. \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f &quot;We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":447466,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17534,16789],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17559,8457],"acf":{"announce":"The Dutchman reflected on his first season and the team's future prospects","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/447465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447465"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=447465"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=447465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}