Gary Neville confirms brutal Erik ten Hag certainty before Aston Villa Man Utd clash

Erik ten Hag, manager of Manchester United, looks on as he leaves the field after the Premier League match between Manchester United FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC at Old Trafford
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Gary Neville says the pressure will be “ramped up” on Erik ten Hag and Manchester United ahead of facing Aston Villa.

The Red Devils were embarrassed 3-0 by Tottenham at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Sunday, producing a performance Neville described as “disgusting”. They head to Villa Park on Sunday (2pm) to face Unai Emery’s side in their next league match.

And Neville said on Sky Sports: “It was an absolutely disgusting performance in that first half in effort, quality, everything you would want in a football team.

“There will be a lot of questions to answer for that group (of players) and the manager in the next week.

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“I’ve been here at Man United enough over the past 10 to 12 years to know that a game and a result like this needs reversing rather quickly.

“The snowball starts to roll down that hill and it gathers apace. Erik ten Hag has got to stop it at source right now because this is a shocking day, a sobering day.

“I said just before the game that there can be no excuses. A mountain of cash has been spent and invested. The first half was absolutely woeful, as bad as it gets.

“The pressure is going to get ramped up this week – it is going to be brutal. It has been a bad day for Ten Hag, really bad.

“It’s one of the worst performances I have seen under Ten Hag – and that is saying something. It is really bad.”

“I’d be suggesting the players probably go and have a meeting themselves tomorrow morning without the manager,” Neville added.

“They’ve got to decide first what they want to do and Erik ten Hag has got a lot of friends in that dressing room that have worked with him previously at other clubs.

“They need to get a grip of that dressing room very quickly because it didn’t look that great out there in that first half today.”

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