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FOUND: Thank you for the lesson erik ten hag to use derby rout as guide for future - What They Never Told You

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag during training
Erik ten Hag said Manchester United ‘have to understand we have to do things much better’. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images/Reuters

Erik ten Hag has thanked Manchester City for Manchester United’s “reality check” in Sunday’s 6-3 derby defeat and insisted his team will step up.

After the game the manager criticised his players for lacking courage in a loss that ended a run of four consecutive league wins. Speaking on the eve of Thursday’s Europa League Group E match at Omonia Nicosia, Ten Hag said United would learn from it.

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