Erik ten Hag （機の）カム out fighting this week... but it's time Man 部隊d did their talking on the pitch. Anything other than victory against 地階 boys Sheffield 部隊d will have his 職業 hanging by a thread

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Erik ten Hag strode into the Jimmy Murphy Centre at Carrington yesterday ready to 攻撃する，衝突する 支援する.

The 組み立てる／集結するd マスコミ didn't know it yet; Ten Hag is typically 静める and 手段d in his 返答s. On Tuesday, 困らすd by what he saw as an overreaction to their 刑罰，罰則 shootout 勝利，勝つ over Coventry City, he 手配中の，お尋ね者 to come out swinging.

Asked with the 開始 question if he understood the reaction, the 批評, that （機の）カム with coughing up a 3-0 lead to 捨てる by second tier Coventry City on 刑罰，罰則s at Wembley, the 部隊d boss said: '絶対 not.

'You made (asked) the question, "is it embarrassing?" No, the reaction from you was embarrassing. The comments are a 不名誉.

'最高の，を越す football is about results. We made it to a final and we deserved it, not only by this game but also the other games. We lost 支配（する）／統制する for 20 minutes, we also had bad luck for 3-2 and 3-3. We were very lucky in the end, （疑いを）晴らす.

Erik ten Hag has come out fighting as his 未来 at Manchester 部隊d hangs in the balance

Ten Hag was livid at the 'embarrassing' reaction from critics to their FA Cup 半分-final victory

'We were not happy with it. I can see the fans are not happy with it 同様に, but they get fed by opinions. But all over, what I heard is that the fans are very happy we are again in the FA Cup final.

'Even for Manchester 部隊d, it is not 商売／仕事 as usual. They were not so often in the FA Cup final.

'The 刑罰，罰則s were very good and we made it to the final. It is a 抱擁する 業績／成就. Twice in two years is magnificent. For me as a 経営者／支配人, five cup 決勝戦 in four years.'

Finally, Ten Hag snapped. All the 圧力 which has been 増大するing since this season began finally told.

Now, with the End Game seemingly in sight, Ten Hag is 辞退するing to go 静かに.

圧力 won't suddenly 中止する either. It's 地階 boys Sheffield 部隊d at home this evening, on paper a game 部隊d should - much as they should have done against Coventry - 勝利，勝つ comfortably.

Only 支援する in 2021, again 底（に届く） of the 首相 League, Sheffield 部隊d pitched up to Old Trafford and won. It's hardly 古代の history.

There is no 疑問 傷害s have 傷つける Ten Hag this season - more than 60 separate 事例／患者s.

Mason 開始する has 行方不明になるd most of the （選挙などの）運動をする after arriving as Ten Hag's No 1 midfield 的 for this season; Lisandro Martinez, a 軍人 off the pitch and 重要な 同盟（する） in the dressing-room, has been 限られた／立憲的な to 11 外見s; Luke Shaw has spent 延長するd （一定の）期間s out; Tyrell Malacia hasn't featured all season; Rasmus Hojlund went 負かす／撃墜する just as he was in a purple patch; even young defender Willy Kambwala was 軍隊d to 行方不明になる the FA Cup 半分-final after breaking into the team.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe (権利) and Avram Glazer (left) watched on at Wembley and no 疑問 the topic of whether to stick or 新たな展開 with the 経営者／支配人 will have come up more than once

Ten Hag won a トロフィー in his first season but after spending £400m his 味方する look furth er away from the biggest honours on 申し込む／申し出 than at any point during his 任期

Winnable games are on the horizon - 同様に as an FA Cup final - and Ten Hag must finish the season with a 繁栄する in a 企て，努力，提案 to 納得させる the 階層制度 he deserves more time as 経営者／支配人

So, in that sense, there is mitigation. But on the flip 味方する Ten Hag has been given £400m and two years to 改善する 部隊d, and they look その上の away than ever. They look like a 味方する that, even when they have a seemingly unassailable lead, you cannot 信用 them.

This was, by 部隊d's 基準s, supposed to be a 決まりきった仕事 week: a 選手権 味方する in an FA Cup 半分-final and then two soon-to-be 選手権 teams in Sheffield 部隊d and Burnley, both of which 長，率いる to Old Trafford this week.

And yet on the first 脚 of that trio Ten Hag and his players 近づく tripped themselves up, 主要な to the growing sense that his days in 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 at Man 部隊d are numbered.

'I think the 未来 of the Manchester 部隊d 経営者／支配人 is already 決定するd. Even if they 勝利，勝つ the FA Cup, I think he's gone,' Alan Shearer said on Monday.

'When you look at the players, when you look at the 態度, where they are in the league and all those things.

'You know how it 作品: new owner, new director of football, new director of 戦略, new this, new that, new whatever. It just tells you: new 経営者／支配人 後継の.'

Ineos and 部隊d's new football 操作／手術s team are not so reactionary as to make emotional 決定／判定勝ち（する）s based on one game. Should 部隊d 大打撃を与える Sheffield 部隊d on Wednesday, it is ありそうもない to move the needle too much.

Sir Dave Brailsford has been doing his audit of 部隊d for the last three months, while new technical director Jason Wilcox met with Ten Hag after 公式に starting work earlier this week, 主要な to suggestions that Wilcox is 捜し出すing a 所有／入手-based style of play from the first team in the final few weeks.

Sources at 部隊d continue to 強調する／ストレス that planning for next season, and this summer's pre-season 小旅行する, is 存在 done with Ten Hag in 牽引する.

With seven games to go all Ten Hag can do now is 勝利，勝つ. Anything いっそう少なく, and that 特に 適用するs to Sheffield 部隊d this evening, and he looks 始める，決める to walk the same plank as fellow Dutchman Louis 先頭 Gaal did in 2016.