Manchester United and Erik Ten Hag has some major worries concerning their squad after they recorded yet another injury ahead of their clash with Leeds United.
Asked about Martial and McTominay, who missed the Palace win, Ten Hag said: “They are not involved tomorrow and the same with Antony. He is also not available tomorrow, so we will have to sort it out.”
The manager is however confident his side will get the job done in the absence of key players from the squad. Especially with Casemiro and Christian Eriksen out of the picture.
"I'm the manager, I always have to play with the players who are available. We have a squad, we have many good players available in that squad, who are not always in the starting XI," he stated.
"So, others [will] get the chance and I have to do it. After the game, I can't say Casemiro is not there, Anthony Martial is not there, no, we have to win. This squad, all players in [it], are Man United capable, so they have to perform tomorrow, and we have to win the games no matter who is coming on the pitch."
Erik Ten Hag expressed his sympathies to Jesse Marsch, the former manager of Leeds who was fired on Monday and claimed that clubs should not regularly change managers in order to succeed.
"It's always sad if a manager is a colleague and gets sacked, in general I don't believe in it that if you sack a manager, you get better results. Most of the time, it doesn't work."
"Let managers do their work, finish their work and then make a good evaluation. Obviously, the pressure is high with the decision makers in football clubs, and they turn. But if you see the facts, you see the stats, most of the time it doesn't work out well."
Manchester United are currently on a 13 home winning streak and another home win at Old Trafford against Leeds United will become a record in Manchester United's history books.
"It was one of our aims this season, to get that back. It was a part of the process to restore Man United to the club we were once. But, it's a part of it," Erik Ten Hag explained.
"Home is good, but I think we have away also good results, but in away games, we can show even more personality, play more convincingly. So, that's the next step we have to make to have the same team on the pitch with personality as we are at home."
"Obviously, I'm really happy with the process we've shown at home, it's great to have that connection with Old Trafford, but also, I think we have to be aware that when we play away, we always have a lot of fans following us and we can do the same away because the pitches are the same size, it's 11 v 11, nothing changes."
"So, in that fact, we can grow, we still have steps to make, and we are happy with that as well because it is a good challenge," he added.
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