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Diaranson 13 Juli 2022

Ten Hag sees 'potential' as United beats Liverpool 4-0

(AP) — New Manchester United proactive. We have to work really hard dium for a first chance to see Pre- see the return of the Premier League
manager Erik ten Hag oversaw a to cut out the mistakes but of course mier League stars since before the giants, many were unhappy about the
4-0 win over archrival Liverpool we are happy with the first game. I COVID-19 pandemic. Top European ticket prices. In a country where the
on Tuesday in his first game in know we have good players," Ten Hag teams have been coming to Asia for annual GDP per capita in 2021 was
charge as European pre-season told the club's in-house TV channel. preseason tours for decades — this $7,233, according to the World Bank,
friendlies returned to Asia after a "They were not in their strongest so was Liverpool's seventh visit to Bang- the cheapest tickets to the friendly
two-year break. we have to not overestimate this re- kok — but those trips were called off game were $138.
sult. ... But, still, I have seen some re- in 2020 and 2021. "Of course, it is very expensive for
The Dutch coach was quick to down- ally good things and I think what you Thai people and most can't afford the
play the significance of the result, see is we have a lot of creativity and Jadon Sancho, Fred and Anthony ticket prices," Kittisak Chumpon, a
however, against a Liverpool side that speed up front, so we have potential." Martial scored in the first half for Bangkok-based Manchester United
made a total of 21 substitutions. United, while Facundo Pellistri fan, told The Associated Press. "It is,
More than 50,000 fans packed into added a late fourth in reversal of last however, a very rare opportunity to
"I think our team played brave, played Bangkok's iconic Rajamangala Sta- season's results when Liverpool beat see these two clubs play each other
its northwest rival 5-0 and 4-0 in the and it is still cheaper than going to
Premier League. England to watch them."

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp United next heads to Australia to face
wasn't bothered by the result, having local team Melbourne Victory as well
left stars such as Mohamed Salah and as Premier League rivals Crystal Pal-
Virgil van Dijk on the bench at the ace and Aston Villa. Crystal Palace is
start of the game. also the next opposition for Liver-
pool. The two teams meet in Singa-
"The game obviously came a bit too pore on Friday with the cheapest tick-
early for us, for a few of our play- ets costing around $105.
ers.," Klopp said. "You can see that
as well. Mistakes happen in football. "It's tough … we were not on tours
We could have scored I think three or for a long time, so we do it now and
four in the last five minutes but didn't from here to Singapore," Klopp said.
and that was our fault." "Then on Saturday we already go
home again, so that's fine. So far, it's
Ten Hag made 11 changes during the really OK apart from the result. Ev-
game as both coaches spread the min- erything is, so far, OK. The welcome
utes around. here was fantastic and I am pretty
While the Thai fans were happy to sure in Singapore it will be similar."