Erik ten Hag said that three Manchester United stars messed up a “easy game” by missing chances against Luton.

After beating Kenilworth Road 2-1 on Sunday, United won their fifth game in a row. Even though they were ahead by two goals after only seven minutes, the guests had to fight hard to keep all three points.

Erik ten Hag named three players who didn’t play their best in the Brighton win.

Alejandro Garnacho missed one chance to put Luton out of the game.Rasmus Hojlund scored the first goal after only 36 seconds, and he added a second goal while the game was still young. It looked like United would win easily at that point, but in the 14th minute, Carlton Morris cut the lead in half.The Red Devils kept making and missing chances, and as the game went on, the home fans became more confident. United won in the end to keep the pressure on the teams above them, but Ten Hag pointed out that Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho, and Bruno Fernandes all missed chances.”I think we got up quickly and, as you say, Garnacho and Rashford gave us good chances. It could have been three or four-nil,” the United manager told Match of the Day (via Daily Mirror). “After that, we lose focus and aren’t as strict about what we should do, which lets them get back into the game more.” We went down too far and let them make too many plays.”We missed some chances, and they beat us 2-1.” That’s not good. But we picked it up after halftime. We had many chances. So many chances, but only one wins. It was Bruno Fernandes, Sarhford again, and I think it was Garnacho. We had a lot of chances, and right now the score should be 3-1.

United missed a big chance because of Marcus Rashford. 

The shot from Bruno is stopped by Lokonga.”Their goal made things tougher,” he said. They had goals and crosses into the box, but not as many chances as we did. We had great chances to score, and with our skills, we should have. We’re getting better, but you can see that we need to keep our minds on the game the whole time. I’m not going to tell you to turn off, but if you do a little less, you will be punished.”That’s how we want to start, right? It was a perfect game plan. The only thing we could have done better was be more clinical in front of goal.” We need to score more goals, because we could have scored five today without much trouble.”This costs too much for us.” Our attention must always be on the task at hand. Do your job as a team, both when you have the ball and when you don’t, and you’ll be able to run your games. It was now hard to win something that could have been easy.

With the win, United moved within three points of Tottenham in fifth place and five points behind Aston Villa in fourth. Ten Hag told Sky Sports, “We’re back in the race.””All that’s left is to keep going.” We need to put pressure on the teams ahead of us. I think we should treat every game as if it were the championship.