Erik ten hag insists he believes in Manchester United captain Harry Maguire and is convinced the centre-back will recover from his prolonged malaise.
Maguire has been out of form for over a year, lost his place in the United side to Raphael Varane in August and has only started one of the last six games.
The 29-year-old endured a chastening evening for England in their 3-3 draw with Germany at Wembley on Monday night when he conceded a penalty and was dispossessed for the counter-attack that led to Kai Havertz's goal. Also read: United manager Erik ten Hag responds to Pep Guardiola praise Maguire played the remainder of the game injured and has been ruled out of Sunday's Manchester derby but his struggles still dominated Ten Hag's press conference. "First of all, of course, I have to coach him, I have to back him but I back him because I believe in him," Ten Hag said. "In the period I worked with him, pre-season was good, it was really good, training and games, so then he fell out but it's also to do with the good performances of the centre-backs who playing now. "But I can see the qualities and even after he wasn't in the team he trained really well and more importantly, the quality was really there.
You see his career, almost 50 caps for England, for Leicester and Man United he's performing really well, what you see is high potential. "And then it's about him, the players in the dressing room, the coaches, the manager believe in him.