{"id":481644,"date":"2024-04-07T23:03:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T03:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=481644"},"modified":"2024-04-07T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T03:03:22","slug":"ten-hag-praises-his-youngsters-in-united-draw-with-liverpool","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ten-hag-praises-his-youngsters-in-united-draw-with-liverpool\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Hag praises his youngsters in United draw with Liverpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage defender Willy Kambwala received huge praise from his head coach after the Red Devils drew against Liverpool at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f| Erik ten Hag on Willy Kambwala: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been training a while with us and progressing well. The next generation need to step in and he is doing brilliant. The challenge for him is doing it consistently.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/73VYN4stxt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/73VYN4stxt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; centredevils. (@centredevils) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/centredevils\/status\/1777027105030607218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Erik handed the 19-year-old his 1<sup>st<\/sup> start against the Reds in only his 7<sup>th<\/sup> match for the team.<\/p>\n<p>Kambwala is liked by his manager, who put him on the pitch at the end of last year against West Ham in London, and the Frenchman also shined in his 1<sup>st<\/sup> start in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch boss revealed that he thought about playing Casemiro at centre-back after Lisandro Martinez, Jonny Evans, Luke Shaw and Raphael Varane were out with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>However, he was impressed by Willy during the Red Devils training sessions and decided to award the teenager with a place in the starting 11.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag added that young footballers must get opportunities to play at the biggest matches, and today, Kambwala&#8217;s performance against Liverpool proved that he was right to start him in the derby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenage defender Willy Kambwala received huge praise from his head coach after the Red Devils drew against Liverpool at Old Trafford. \ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8\ud83c\udf99\ufe0f| Erik [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":481645,"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":[17559,17886,22844,8457],"acf":{"announce":"The Dutch manager is happy with the performance of his teenagers.","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\/481644"}],"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=481644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481646,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/481644\/revisions\/481646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481644"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=481644"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=481644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}