In the FA Cup, his team defeated Liverpool 4-3, although they battled in their subsequent 1-1 draw with Brentford.
Ten Hag mentioned player workloads in response to a question about the disparate displays.
The Dutchman claimed, “The players get overloaded and can’t bring the performances any more.”
“We are already I think over the point of what we demand from our top players,” he stated.
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Ten Hag said that not only his squad was impacted, implying that the Manchester City club that drew with Arsenal over the weekend—without Kyle Walker and John Stones—was “different” from the team that United lost 3-1 to earlier this month.
In a press conference held ahead of Thursday’s Premier League match against Chelsea, he stated, “You see the levels dropping with them [Manchester City] again, it was a different team from when we faced them, so yeah, the levels with teams will drop at any moment if we keep going in this process by overloading the international program.”