Ten Hag: The Biography

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It is a great honour to be appointed manager of Manchester United and I am hugely excited by the challenge ahead," said Ten Hag. Erik ten Hags Ajax Tactics is one I’ve wanted to recreate in Football Manager for a long time, but I’ve prioritized differently. Until now! Ajax Clinches Eredivisie Title, Dutch Domestic Double". Sports Illustrated. 15 May 2019 . Retrieved 15 May 2019. For 1998 UEFA Intertoto Cup: "Erik ten Hag: Club Matches: UI-Cup 1998/1999". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL . Retrieved 24 April 2022. If you have a board who do not have patience it could be done after a few months," says Overgoor. "But the board trusted him at Utrecht and at Ajax and you see what happens next. It was the same at Eagles. It was up and down. After that, it was up, up and up.

Overmars commissaris bij Go Ahead Eagles"[Overmars Commissioner at Go Ahead Eagles]. Voetbal International (in Dutch). Amsterdam. 11 April 2005 . Retrieved 7 March 2014. This has offered the manager the opportunity to share the streamlined working practices of Ajax and Bayern Munich, where the hierarchy and decision-making process is clearly defined and driven by a 'one club, one vision approach.'It cannot be debated he was cheaper to secure than the other main candidate Mauricio Pochettino, with Ajax providing the kind of obstacle-free negotiation process that is alien to Paris Saint-Germain. For instance, if Timber brings the ball out of defence by carrying the ball forward, Edson Alvarez will drop deep to maintain a covering role. If Mazraoui overlaps on the right flank and provide the width, Antony will move inside, or if Blind moves inside, Gravenberch will move wide. The same can apply all over the pitch as players interchange positions to create passing triangles.

Some of the stories about Ten Hag make him sound like a tough taskmaster, but there was another side to his coaching. He was an innovator intent on raising standards. That meant placing demands on players, but also providing them with a better environment. Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag admits he would have preferred to have gone into pre-season with a fully equipped squad that would have ideally included Frenkie de Jong Every player tells him the same thing. "What really came out from those conversations with everyone involved was that Erik ten Hag changed the professionalism at the club in just a couple of weeks at the start of pre-season," Vriends tells Sky Sports. Man Utd 1-0 Wolves: Raphael Varane wins it as Erik ten Hag's side scrape to victory against Gary O'Neil's team". McNulty, Phil (22 August 2022). "Manchester United 2–1 Liverpool". BBC Sport . Retrieved 22 August 2022.Last season, United beat City and Liverpool at home (2-1 each) but were trounced 6-3 and 7-0 away at two of their greatest rivals. There was, too, a 4–0 defeat at Brentford. All of these featured a concerning in-match collapse.

For 1989–90 UEFA Cup: Ionescu, Romeo (2004). The Complete Results & Line-ups of the UEFA Cup 1971–1991. Cleethorpes: Soccer Books. p.385. ISBN 978-1-86223-109-2.Watch highlights as Erik ten Hag gets life as Manchester United manager off to a winning start with a 4-0 thrashing of Liverpool in Bangkok. All of Man Utd’s tour games are available to watch on MUTV, Sky Channel 418. Fresh from spending an hour with Ten Hag reminiscing about their time together at Go Ahead Eagles, Vriends is convinced his old boss will adapt, just as he has to every previous challenge. to get your team to function… There are so many aspects you need to train over and over again. It takes time to find the right balance.” Erik ten Hag

There is less surprise at the success that Ten Hag has enjoyed since. "I knew he had it in him. We knew he was special. He went to Bayern Munich and then to Utrecht." The opportunity at Eagles was not an obvious one. This was a club that had been relegated from the Eredivisie in 1996 and stayed in the second tier for the subsequent 16 seasons. Standards had slipped, expectations had dipped. Ten Hag soon changed that. 'He changed the mentality at the club' By combining specific passing patterns and the focus on increasing the number of passing options for the player on the ball with aggressive press and looking to win possession as high up the pitch as possible, Ajax manage to dominate the match both in possession of the ball, in transition and off the ball. At the beginning there too, people needed to get used to him," says Vriends. "He was this serious man from the east of the country with this funny accent. It did not really seem to fit with Ajax at first. But within weeks it was all good. He changed the mentality. The long, winding pursuit of Frenkie de Jong has been frustrating with the financial gymnastics that accompanies Barcelona. Ten Hag has stated "there are not many options in that holding midfield position capable of the level we demand. If we can't find him, we have to deal with the players in our squad now and we will develop one in that position.As the principles of positional play dictates, player’s positioning and movement must follow strict rules – all depending on the location of the ball on the pitch. With different rules and strategies depending on which zones on the pitch the ball enters, players have the freedom to move and rotate positions within a specific framework dictated by the manager’s desire. I must say I have a strong belief in myself. This is a big challenge but everywhere I've been, I've got the maximum out of my teams. This is my most difficult project, but I am convinced I can do it." Ajax are top of the Dutch Eredivisie - four points clear of PSV Eindhoven - with five matches left, although they lost to their rivals in the Dutch Cup final. Keep reading about my tactical analysis of Erik ten Hag’s Ajax tactics and the principles of play used by Erik ten Hag that works so wonderful for de Godenzonen. Ajax began the 2020–21 season strongly, winning their first three games, before a 1–0 defeat at Groningen, which proved to be one of the two league defeats that Ten Hag's team sustained over the course of the season. On 24 October 2020, Ten Hag led Ajax to a historic 13–0 victory over VVV-Venlo, breaking the Eredivisie record of the biggest recorded victory in the history of the competition. Ajax's form in Europe improved as well under Ten Hag, with the team looking promising, despite a second consecutive relegation to the Europa League, having finished third in their UEFA Champions League group. Their subsequent form in the Europa League improved, with convincing victories over Lille and Young Boys in the Round of 32 and Round of 16 respectively, progressing Ajax to the quarter-finals. However, Ajax were unable to progress, and Ten Hag's team suffered a 3–2 aggregate defeat to Roma, ending any hopes of a possible UEFA Europa League final. On 18 April 2021, Ten Hag guided Ajax to their record-extending 20th KNVB Cup with a 2–1 win over Vitesse in the final. [15] Two weeks later, Ten Hag extended his contract with Ajax through to the end of the 2022–23 season. [16]