Can the FA Cup save Ten Hag?
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🗓️ 18 March 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Following Manchester United's dramatic FA Cup Sixth Round win over Liverpool at Old Trafford The Athletic's David Ornstein and Mark Critchley join Ayo Akinwolere to discuss the significance of the result for Erik ten Hag.
The Manchester United manager has been under increased scrutiny since the minority investment from Sir Jim Ratcliffe, who has taken over sporting control at Old Trafford.
So, would possible success in the FA Cup be enough to convince the hierarchy Ten Hag is worth persisting with come the summer, or could United be set to beginning their next managerial hunt for a worthy successor to Sir Alex Ferguson?
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.8 | Amad for the semifinal |
| 0:06.2 | Eric Tenhard said this was a chance to save their season |
| 0:13.5 | Will Amman Diallo has just breathed new life into it |
| 0:21.3 | Eric Tenhag believes Manchester United's incredible four-three win against Liverpool |
| 0:25.8 | could be a turning point in their season. |
| 0:29.0 | But would winning the FA Cup be enough to keep his job in the summer? |
| 0:33.0 | And his two seasons enough time to be judged at a club the size of Manchester United. |
| 0:38.9 | I'm Ayahu Akimu Lerre. Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast. |
| 0:48.7 | Okay, so here on the Monday morning, we have the Athletics football correspondent David |
| 0:52.9 | Ornstein, as well as our Manchester |
| 0:54.8 | football writer Mark Critchley who was also at Old Trafford for that four three win against Liverpool |
| 1:01.0 | in the FA Cup it was actually such a golf fest in the FA Cup but we're going to focus on Manchester |
| 1:05.5 | United Critch man United got one over their old foes absolutely I think first thing to say, one of the great FA Cup ties, one of the great Manchester |
| 1:14.9 | United Liverpool games, just everything really that is good and right about football, |
| 1:19.4 | in my opinion. |
| 1:20.0 | Honestly, like, speaking on a personal level, even professionally, one of the best games |
| 1:26.2 | that I've had the privilege of being at and made, I think, |
| 1:29.8 | by two brilliant, but really kind of far from perfect teams. And it was almost as though those flaws |
| 1:35.0 | were part of the appeal. You know, I think certainly in United's case, you wouldn't say that |
| 1:39.6 | they dominated Liverpool in any respect, but the game was so fast, it was so fluid, it was so direct, it was so intense, full of intensity. And I think Eric Turner has been faced with a lot of questions this year about what is United style of play, what is he trying to achieve? Look at that game yesterday, and I think it's that. It is fast, it is direct, it is intense. It's actually not that different from Liverpool style of play, I don't think, |
| 2:02.9 | which is not to say that United are in any way nearly as good as Juergen Klopp's title challenges, obviously. |
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