{"id":33893,"date":"2024-10-05T03:09:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=33893"},"modified":"2024-10-05T03:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T00:09:55","slug":"emery-backs-ten-hag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/05\/emery-backs-ten-hag\/","title":{"rendered":"Emery Backs Ten Hag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aston Villa\u2019s Spanish coach Unai Emery expressed his support for Dutchman Erik ten Hag, Manchester United\u2019s current coach, on Friday, ahead of their clash in the seventh round of the Premier League.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Emery spoke about Ten Hag, who has been under heavy pressure since last season, which has intensified due to recent results, even to the point of possible dismissal: \u201cI have a lot of respect for him. We lost the last four matches, home and away, against them (United), and they are a championship-winning team. They beat Manchester City in the cup.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added: \u201cThe club is usually a title-winning team. They aren\u2019t performing well in the league, but I had to think more about preparing for this match than our match against Bayern Munich (Germany).\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Aston Villa recently achieved a significant 1-0 win over Bayern in the Champions League, while substitute defender Harry Maguire saved United from a loss against Porto in the Europa League, securing a late 3-3 draw after being 2-0 ahead.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Despite this, Emery believes that United still poses a threat to his team: \u201cSunday\u2019s match will be huge for us after the Bayern match because we\u2019re playing against one of the best teams in the world.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He continued: \u201cUnited doesn\u2019t play in the Champions League, but in the Europa League, yet their team has high-level players and a top coach.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Spaniard, who led Villa to the Champions League for the first time in 41 years, mentioned that his team is \u201cnot a contender to be in the top seven in the league,\u201d in response to a question about Villa\u2019s ambitions this season. He added: \u201cWe want to be competitive, and we are currently in the points-gathering phase. We\u2019ll have to see where we are in February.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa\u2019s Spanish coach Unai Emery expressed his support for Dutchman Erik ten Hag, Manchester United\u2019s current coach, on Friday, ahead of their clash in the seventh round of the Premier League. Emery spoke about Ten Hag, who has been under heavy pressure since last season, which has intensified due to recent results, even to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33894,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33893\/revisions\/33894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}