The Dutchman and his rickety, confidence-sapped workforce are below the microscope after final weekend’s 3-0 dwelling humbling by Bournemouth was adopted by a meek midweek European exit.

United mustered only one shot on the right track as Tuesday’s key Champions League conflict with Bayern Munich led to a dull 1-0 defeat – their twelfth lack of a marketing campaign that would attain a brand new low on Sunday.

Ten Hag’s males are making the quick journey to Anfield for the primary time since being hammered there 7-0 in March, which got here only a week after they gained the Carabao Cup at Wembley.

United head to Liverpool in a far worse state this time round, with as many as 11 first-team gamers absent for a match that their under-fire supervisor believes his aspect can defy the percentages in.

“They’re enjoying good, little doubt,” Ten Hag stated of Liverpool, who started the weekend high of the Premier League – 10 factors forward of their sixth-placed guests.

“However we’ve got had some robust video games within the final interval, as Bayern can also be a really robust workforce.

“We have now seen that we will go head-to-head with them and that’s our problem for Sunday as nicely.”

Requested if he’s frightened in regards to the variety of absentees he’s coping with, Ten Hag stated: “We’ll put out a workforce who can problem, who’s assured to win that recreation.

“We’re getting ready the workforce in one of the simplest ways we will. We’re assured we will put out a workforce who can win there.”

Skipper Bruno Fernandes is suspended on Sunday and rejuvenated defender Harry Maguire has joined these in United’s packed remedy room having sustained a groin damage on Tuesday.

Ten Hag says Luke Shaw and Marcus Rashford have been cleared to characteristic, however Anthony Martial, Victor Lindelof and Mason Mount look set to overlook out as soon as once more.

Casemiro, Lisandro Martinez, Christian Eriksen, Tyrell Malacia and Amad Diallo are additionally coping with accidents, whereas Jadon Sancho stays banished from the first-team set-up.

It’s an eye-watering absentee checklist that will increase the incline on an uphill battle in opposition to Liverpool, who’ve gained 4 of the previous 5 league conferences in opposition to United – scoring not less than 4 objectives in these wins.

The 7-0 annihilation final time was a report defeat on this fixture however Ten Hag dismissed the suggestion his gamers could also be terrified of such a hiding occurring once more.

“I didn’t see final season that we have been scared there,” the under-fire United boss stated.

“It was a nasty expertise. However it isn’t related, you begin once more on null.

“Final season, within the first half, I believe we performed very first rate and we had received hammered simply after half-time. Then we collapsed.

“Sure, that may’t occur, however that was final 12 months. It was a distinct workforce with completely different gamers, for an element not less than.

“We is not going to ignore it however we go there and we will probably be assured and I do know my gamers will probably be assured to go there from the begin to the tip.

“We have now to combat there, we’ve got to problem there and also you go there with the concept, so we’ll put together them with the concept to win there.”