RALF Rangnick claimed Saints’ Old Trafford equaliser was “too easy” before quoting an expected goals statistic to imply that his side should have taken more from the match. Rangnick, who was the director of football when Hasenhuttl replaced him as manager at Red Bull Leipzig, called into question whether his charges are “nasty” enough against teams like Saints.
Ralf Rangnick said: “They can be tough but the question is for what period of time and in which moments, speaking after the match. Again, if I see the game, the goal we conceded today, quite like at Burnley, it’s just too easy. It’s too easy. It was not even difficult for Burnley and today for Southampton to score these goals, and against Middlesbrough it was similar. If you are being counter-attacked after being 1-0 up, this is also a question of tactical discipline and being aggressive in the decisive moments and just don’t allow the players to go past you.”
Rangnick also underlined United’s issues turning chances into goals as Cristiano Ronaldo’s barren spell stretched to a sixth match.
Ralf Rangnick said: “Our team with a lot of technical players, with a lot offensively behaving and thinking players, for them it is difficult to stay compact for a longer period of time, for the whole game. This is one of our problems. The other is that we don’t take enough advantage of the chances that we create. Today we had an expected goals ratio of 2.57 to 0.7 of Southampton.”
