{"id":469019,"date":"2023-11-11T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=469019"},"modified":"2023-11-11T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T12:02:23","slug":"ten-hag-varane-is-on-the-bench-because-of-maguires-form","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ten-hag-varane-is-on-the-bench-because-of-maguires-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Hag: Varane is on the bench because of Maguire\u2019s form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag has claimed there is no problem in his relationship with Rapha\u00ebl Varane and added that the French defender is playing less because Harry Maguire performs very well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Erik ten Hag on if Raphael Varane is still among the starters: &#8220;Yes, absolutely. As I say, Harry Maguire is doing very well in this moment and I\u2019m very happy with that. As I always said with Harry Maguire, he can do the job and now he is showing he is doing the job.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mufc?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#mufc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZePo2lnr3T\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZePo2lnr3T<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The United Stand (@UnitedStandMUFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnitedStandMUFC\/status\/1723122111982510421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Raphael was 1<sup>st<\/sup> choice in the centre of defence in the past campaign but has been left on the bench for 3 of the Man Utd\u2019s last 4 matches, including the 3-0 loss against the Sky Blues at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>The media asked Manchester United\u2019s Dutch head coach if there is a problem with the Frenchman, and Ten Hag shared:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely not. As I answered in the past, it is about tactical reasons why I chose these players. I think Harry [Maguire] and Jonny [Evans] are in a form right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Manchester United boss added that Maguire didn\u2019t play a lot last campaign, and he was satisfied with Rapha&#8217;s performances, but now Harry is in better form, and that\u2019s why he is on the pitch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag has claimed there is no problem in his relationship with Rapha\u00ebl Varane and added that the French defender is playing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":469020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17534,16789,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17559,17886,8457],"acf":{"announce":"The Red Devils manager claimed that there is no problem between him and Varane.","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\/469019"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469022,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/469019\/revisions\/469022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469019"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=469019"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=469019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}