The Dutch coach faced a lot of criticism the previous season due to his team’s Premier League eighth-place result and tendency to give up goals while under duress.

It was thought that he could turn things around after a fruitful summer window, having withstood Ineos’ examination of his June performance.

His support at the club hasn’t increased despite two losses in three Premier League games, including a humiliating 0–3 loss to Liverpool at Old Trafford.

Once more, Ten Hag infuriated supporters by claiming that his team had been the second-best in England since his arrival, despite the fact that league statistics clearly show otherwise.

After the disappointing start to the season, his job is supposedly “on the line,” and he has four games left after the international break to salvage his Old Trafford tenure.

It would have been understandable for the former Ajax coach to take a vacation from coaching during the international break in order to relieve some of the burden, but he nevertheless consented to manage a legendary FC Utrecht team against the current squad in a testimonial for former player Mark van der Maarel.

Ten Hag was said to have lost the game at first.

Ten Hag was in charge of the former Utrecht players, but the Daily Mail reports that he was unable to lead them to victory as they fell 2-1, with Van der Maarel scoring a late consolation.

These reports, however, proved to be untrue.

The United manager was quite respectful of his former player and the career that he carved out after the game.

You are a character if you frequent this club for such a long time. He truly deserves this,” he remarked.

He will now focus on getting his Manchester United team ready to beat newly promoted Southampton and earn a much-needed three points in their upcoming league match.

The former Utrecht manager will come under increasing pressure if they don’t succeed.