{"id":2273,"date":"2024-04-14T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/14\/erik-ten-hag-comments-on-bruno-fernandes-heated-exchange-with-man-utd-teammate\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T00:08:08","slug":"erik-ten-hag-comments-on-bruno-fernandes-heated-exchange-with-man-utd-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/14\/erik-ten-hag-comments-on-bruno-fernandes-heated-exchange-with-man-utd-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik ten Hag comments on Bruno Fernandes&#8217; heated exchange with Man Utd teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fernandes, 29, scored two goals for United on Saturday, helping the team secure a 2-2 draw after a lackluster performance. Before United fell behind to Dominic Solanke&#8217;s 16th-minute goal, Fernandes was seen arguing with his goalkeeper over goal kicks. Despite encouragement to calm down, Fernandes continued the dispute, even gesturing defiantly at his manager.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match interview, United boss Ten Hag praised Fernandes&#8217; energy and leadership as the team captain, while expressing disappointment in the team&#8217;s dropped points in recent games. He acknowledged the struggle in the first half but highlighted the team&#8217;s fighting spirit in the second half. Bournemouth was awarded a penalty in injury time, but VAR overturned the decision, ruling it occurred outside the box.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag disagreed with the penalty decision and expressed dissatisfaction with the team&#8217;s recent record of conceding debatable penalties. Finally, Manchester United now shift their focus to the FA Cup, where they will face Coventry in a semi-final showdown at Wembley next Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernandes, 29, scored two goals for United on Saturday, helping the team secure a 2-2 draw after a lackluster performance. Before United fell behind to Dominic Solanke&#8217;s 16th-minute goal, Fernandes was seen arguing with his goalkeeper over goal kicks. Despite encouragement to calm down, Fernandes continued the dispute, even gesturing defiantly at his manager. In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrews-utd.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}