{"id":300110,"date":"2023-12-13T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=300110"},"modified":"2023-12-13T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:25:58","slug":"carragher-rips-into-ten-hag-and-accuses-him-of-clutching-at-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/carragher-rips-into-ten-hag-and-accuses-him-of-clutching-at-straws\/","title":{"rendered":"Carragher rips into Ten Hag and accuses him of &apos;clutching at straws&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Jamie Carragher rips into Erik ten Hag and accuses him of &#8216;clutching at straws&#8217; &#8211; after the Man United boss insisted they &#8216;didn&#8217;t deserve to lose&#8217; as they were dumped out of the Champions League by Bayern Munich<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Man United were been knocked out of the Champions League at the group stage<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>Erik ten Hag&#8217;s side managed only one shot on target in a game they had to win<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Back off Erik ten Hag! Insipid Man United performances are on the players \u2013 not the manager &#8211; Listen to why on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jamie Carragher believes that Erik ten Hag was &#8216;clutching at straws&#8217; by defending Manchester United&#8217;s display as they were knocked out of the Champions League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Reds Devils barely laid a glove on Bayern Munich on Tuesday night, despite requiring a win to stand any chance of progressing, and fell to a 1-0 loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>United&#8217;s limp display saw them fail to qualify for the Europa League\u00a0as they finished bottom of a group that also included FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Post-match, Ten Hag insisted his team played well &#8211; even after managing just one shot on target &#8211; and claimed they &#8216;didn&#8217;t deserve to lose.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>That assessment didn&#8217;t fly with the former Liverpool defender, who reckoned the Dutchman was simply attempting minimise the fallout ahead of their trip to Anfield on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/10\/78907533-12858823-image-a-25_1702464735680.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jamie Carragher believed that Erik ten Hag&#8217;s defence of his squad wasn&#8217;t much more than damage limitation ahead of their huge weekend clash against Liverpool<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/10\/78907333-12858823-image-a-23_1702464483831.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Erik ten Hag insisted that his team has played well and didn&#8217;t deserve to lose the match<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/13\/10\/78907369-12858823-image-a-24_1702464549643.jpg\" height=\"420\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>United will not be involved in European competition after Christmas having finished bottom of the group<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think what happens is because it\u2019s been so poor for Manchester United this season, you\u2019re playing one of the top teams in Europe, you are missing injured players.&#8217; Carragher told told CBS Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think it\u2019s almost a case of because you haven\u2019t been beaten 3-0 or 4-0, 1-0 actually feels OK. You\u2019re in the game for an hour. He\u2019s probably watching the game thinking we\u2019re still in this and it\u2019s almost like a slight feel-good factor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Because you lose 3-0 to Bournemouth, you\u2019re now playing one of the giants of European football and you only lose 1-0, he\u2019s trying to take something from it to then get to Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That will be the message to the players &#8220;you were playing one of the top teams in Europe anything could\u2019ve happened, we\u2019ve got to go to Anfield now and try to produce some sort of performance&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube, Apple Music and Spotify.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;A result looks really tough on paper but I think that\u2019s just a manager trying to clutch at straws.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The home side were missing Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial, Mason Mount and Christian Eriksen, while Harry Maguire and Luke Shaw were forced off through injury during the tie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The German giants were far from their best but still managed to end United hopes of European football after Christmas. 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