I heard what Man United team did in dressing room after Twente draw – Erik ten Hag will be furious

Manchester United started their Europa League campaign with a disappointing 1-1 draw with FC Twente at Old Trafford on Wednesday evening.

After Christian Eriksen had fired the Reds into a 1-0 lead with 35 minutes on the clock, the expectation was that United would add to their tally and mark their Europa League opener with a commanding victory.

However, Sam Lammers capitalised on an Eriksen mistake to bring Twente level with just over 20 minutes left, firing past Andre Onana at his near post. Twente’s supporters celebrated at full-time as though they had just been crowned Europa League champions.

To the Dutch side’s credit, they performed well, with their passion and desire worthy of a share of the spoils. For United, however, it was another underwhelming result to start a European campaign, meaning you now have to go back to 2020 for the last time they won their opening fixture in a European campaign.

Erik ten Hag, who is a boyhood Twente supporter, was understandably furious with his side’s performance, criticising his players for not grabbing the game by the scruff of the neck.

He said: “It was the game of their life, they fought for every yard and we didn’t. Ninety-nine per cent is not enough, you have to give 100 per cent, you have to kill the game and finish it off.

“We are leading 1-0 but you have to go for the second goal, then you kill the game.”

United were expected to come out for the second half and push for a second goal to kill the game off. However, they failed to assert themselves in the same way they did at Crystal Palace on Saturday, only peppering the visitors’ penalty area in the final 10 minutes.

Ten Hag has attempted to raise standards throughout his United tenure, and he did transform the dressing room culture in his first season at Old Trafford, ending the player-power era. However, he is bound to have been alarmed by Eriksen’s post-match admission, in which he said everyone within the dressing room felt Twente were hungrier for the win.