“He was okay, that is what he advised me,” Ten Hag advised the media after the ultimate whistle. “That is what I requested him when he got here off: ‘Is there an issue?’ No, he was 100 per cent there, not any time [was] there a doubt to take him off.
“I wasn’t livid, however I simply was asking my participant how he’s. He stated ‘it is simply dry blood, it isn’t bleeding’, so we’re actually stunned that he has to return off.”
The Bees, recognized for his or her methodical strategy to set-pieces, took full benefit of De Ligt’s momentary absence.
Ten Hag continued: “In fact, there was an enormous second, as a result of Brentford are superb in corners, and if you then miss one among your finest headers, they usually take profit from it, then after all you might be dissatisfied.”
