Erik ten Hag slams Andy Carroll’s reckless antics in FA Cup clash

Whilst you cannot know for sure the player’s intentions, the former Liverpool player looked fairly set on inflicting pain on United’s midfield throughout the night. It won’t make up for the fact that he won one League Cup in the prime of his career and is the epitome of an incompetent forward, though.

Ten Hag fumes over on-field decisions

Ten Hag was questioned on the incident in a press conference with MUTV. He said: “I am disappointed about that. I think football has to set limits and restrictions so that you protect the players. I think what football wants is the best players to be available on the pitch and this is a tackle, and the two tackles after it, they don’t belong on the football pitch, because it’s high risk to injure your colleague, it is worse.

“I wondered about that for instance at Crystal Palace where there was an elbow on [Lisandro] Martinez and I don’t even know if there was a whistle for a free-kick. But no one is interfering. I’m wondering about such things because it’s a risk of injury for the player.”