Manchester United’s new set-piece coach details Arsenal mistake he will not make under Erik ten Hag

Manchester United have appointed Arsenal’s former set-piece coach Andreas Georgson to join Erik ten Hag’s coaching unit at Old Trafford.

The Dutch manager has already appointed Rene Hake and Ruud van Nistelrooy as his new assistant coaches at United.

However, the club has been without a specialised set-piece coach since Eric Ramsay left midway through the 2023/24 season.

Georgson has Premier League experience with Arsenal and has also held positions at Brentford and Southampton and has now been appointed at United.

He was hired by Jason Wilcox at Southampton in August 2023, when Wilcox was the club’s director of football.

The now-United technical director praised Georgson and his expertise. “Andreas has an excellent understanding of the game model we’re building here, in which set-pieces play an important role,” Wilcox explained.

“He is an expert in what he does and truly eats, sleeps, and breathes set-pieces, adding another asset to our backroom staff supporting Russell and the team.”

Georgson has previously explained how he thinks he could’ve improved his approach while at Arsenal and this could be something that he applies during his role at Old Trafford.

“If I look back at the first couple of months (at Arsenal) I got it wrong,” he told the Training Ground Guru podcast in 2022.

“That effected our quality on the attacking side (with set pieces). I came in with, I think, a too big level of detail in the set-piece process. In the beginning, it was impossible for the player to take it all in.

“I came from Brentford. They had worked for many years very deep into set pieces and made it part of their identity. I think Arsenal at that point was more of a traditional club in terms of what level of focus set pieces got.

“I didn’t get it right in terms of how big and flexible to make the set piece process, so we struggled quite hard to be effective attacking wise, but became really strong defensively.

“The attacking process was too detailed, too flexible and too big, because that was the system I was used to from before. I realised that the players at Brentford were used to that, they had done that for many years, and they were not so stressed by the fact that my plan was quite detailed.”

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