Erik ten Hag insists his Man United stars are NOT thinking about the Premier League title

Erik ten Hag has insisted that Manchester United players are not thinking about a possible title race despite closing the gap on the league leaders.

Manchester United beat Leicester with a convincing 3-0 win and continued their good run but Ten Hag remained coy on talk of the title.

Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, the 53-year-old head coach admitted his side are taking it a game at a time.

Ten Hag said: ‘We don’t think about the title race. We think about the next game, Thursday is going to be a big game for us. 

‘We have to fight, our fans [have] to make Old Trafford a fortress and the game plan has to be right.’

The United boss also admitted that his side’s performance was far from perfect. 

Ten Hag said: ‘We’re happy with the result, it’s a great result. When you play every third day you can’t always get to your same performance. Today was really tough.

‘We had problems and it was only because of David de Gea that we had a clean sheet at half-time,’ added Ten Hag.

Leicester enjoyed a good spell in the first-half and went close to scoring through Harvey Barnes and Kelechi Iheanacho but De Gea was on fine form in the United goal. 

‘First half Leicester played brilliant, we were rubbish, the way we were really undisciplined.’ 

The United boss continued: ‘Luckily we had half-time, we could repair some things and the second half was brilliant. There was a lot of pleasure, it was enjoyable to watch how we created so many chances and scored great goals.’

Marcus Rashford scored twice for United as the 25-year-old’s hot-streak in front of goal continued.

However, Ten Hag felt that other players also deserved credit for good performances in the win.

Ten Hag said: ‘He [Rashford] is getting in the positions but don’t forget the team. I want to highlight Bruno again. Two great assists. There are so many players that can pass him the ball in the right moment like Bruno, Jadon, Fred.’

Manchester United have a crucial Europa League game, the Carabao Cup final and the FA Cup 5th round before they next return to Premier League action. 

The Red Devils play Barcelona following their 2-2 Europa League play-off first-leg before heading to Wembley for the cup final against Newcastle and then hosting West Ham in the FA Cup.

A derby against Liverpool then awaits Ten Hag’s side as they look to continue to climb the Premier League table