Coach Erik Ten Hag pointed out the issue that worries him the most, even more than the criticism aimed at MU’s poor performance.

 MU will face Coventry City in the FA Cup semi-finals. However, according to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, the Old Trafford team suffered heavy losses in personnel when three players, Mason Mount, Sofyan Amrabat and Willy Kambwala, could not participate due to injury.

Fabrizio Romano emphasized that the Old Trafford team has had more than 60 cases of injury or health problems in the 2023/24 season.

Ten Hag has a headache when “MU has only had a full squad once in the past 18 months”

The Standard page also revealed that coach Erik Ten Hag was forced to add many U18 players such as Louis Jackson, Ethan Wheatley, Harry Amass, Habeeb Ogunneye to the registration list. Ten Hag is even considering placing Casemiro in the centre-back partnership with Harry Maguire in the match against Coventry.

“Mason Mount, Sofyan Amrabat, Willy Kambwala will miss the match against Coventry due to injury. MU has more than 60 cases of injury or health problems this season.

Harry Maguire is the only midfielder who is healthy and ready to play tonight. Varane, Lisandro Martínez, Evans Victor Lindelof, Willy Kambwala are all injured. It can be understood that coach Erik ten Hag had to test Casemiro as a central defender, while Maguire became the emergency solution,” Fabrizio Romano wrote on Twitter.

Responding to the media before the match, coach Ten Hag affirmed that the shortage of personnel is the issue that worries him most at the present time, not the future at MU: “Criticism does not bother me. What worries me is that MU has only had a full squad once in the past 18 months.

Injuries are normal in football but not as many as we encounter, especially in important positions. People can look at the problem differently, but I have to look at reality.”

In the 2023/24 season, MU played extremely poorly when eliminated from the Champions League and League Cup. In the Premier League, the “Red Devils” ranked 7th, 13 points behind Aston Villa’s 4th place and almost lost all hope of competing for the Champions League.

Therefore, the FA Cup became the only hope to save MU’s disastrous season. However, according to British media, coach Ten Hag could still be fired despite the “Red Devils” winning the FA Cup, in the context that new investor Jim Ratcliffe targets a series of famous strategists such as Zinedine Zidane and Gareth. Southgate or Graham Potter.