Erik ten Hag has demanded that Fulham apologise Bruno Fernandes over a TikTok that gave the impression to be derogatory in the direction of the Manchester United captain within the wake of final weekend’s Premier League assembly between the golf equipment at Previous Trafford.
Posted by Fulham’s official account on the platform, the content material in query targeted on Fernandes after his ankle was clipped from behind by Sasa Lukic. Set to comedic music, the implication was that the Portuguese, who obtained up after a couple of seconds of exhibiting seen discomfort, was playacting. The related caption learn, “So glad he is okay…”, accompanied by an eye-rolling emoji.
“I did not know this but when they did it, I’d say it isn’t proper,” Ten Hag commented on Thursday, the day after the video was initially posted. “It is completely not proper {that a} membership makes such statements as a result of it’s completely out of order they usually had been mistaken. So they need to apologise for this.”
Ten Hag, who had already given a robust defence of his participant after Wednesday evening’s FA Cup fifth spherical victory over Nottingham Forest, added that referees want to supply extra safety.
“He’s a really passionate soccer participant and he’s a really inventive soccer participant. He’s creating most probabilities within the Premier League. You see opponents are concentrating on him and, particularly after Saturday, when he had a knock they usually see it, I really feel the refereeing ought to shield him,” the boss stated.
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“That they had the prospect already within the begin of the sport as a result of it was apparent they had been on the lookout for him. I believed it was positively a foul on Saturday and it was actually misjudged from media, from social media accountable him for that. Then opponents are concentrating on him and that isn’t proper as a result of the referee ought to shield him. There have been fouls on him, even after the ball was kicked away.”
Ten Hag made Fernandes membership captain final summer time after the previous Sporting CP skipper had worn the armband for a lot of final season with Harry Maguire on the bench. Unsurprisingly, the United boss stated he considers him to be among the many finest gamers he has labored with.
“[He ranks] extremely, very extremely,” Ten Hag continued. “To start with, his soccer abilities. He’s so inventive in that closing third, creating probabilities. Then his output and contribution for defending jobs, after which main, studying a scenario, studying the press but additionally being the instance, by operating and operating in the fitting moments. Pointing to gamers round him. He’s completely a frontrunner by instance.”
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