Erik ten Hag is assured Marcus Rashford “will fly” as soon as he baggage a objective or an help for Manchester United.
Rashford is but to make his mark on the 2024/25 marketing campaign and his performances have been frequently scrutinised after 12 months of detached type.
The Englishman was named in United‘s beginning lineup for the journey to Southampton, which noticed Amad recalled on the expense of Alejandro Garnacho, and Ten Hag reiterated his perception that issues will flip round for the 26-year-old.
“”Not solely as we speak, however he is in a great place and he wants a objective or an help. Final sport he had superb crosses,” Ten Hag advised TNT Sports activities. “That second will come, we’ll watch for that momentum after which he’ll fly.
“All strikers need to rating and from my expertise as soon as a striker begins scoring they’re going to fly.”
Manuel Ugarte, a £43m arrival from Paris Saint-Germain, was included in United’s matchday squad, however settled for a spot on the bench as fellow new arrivals Matthijs de Ligt, Noussair Mazraoui and Joshua Zirkzee had been all named within the beginning lineup.
Christian Eriksen was additionally introduced again into United’s midfield on the expense of the much-maligned Casemiro, with the Dane’s performances in coaching the important thing purpose to Ten Hag choosing him for the sport at St Mary’s.
“He [Eriksen] has had a great pre-season, in coaching he is had superb performances. So, he has earned a begin,” Ten Hag mentioned, earlier than including on Casemiro being omitted: “Now we have a squad and we provide loads of video games, he’ll play I’m satisfied of this.”
The Pink Devils had been comfortably overwhelmed by rivals Liverpool of their final Premier League outing, happening 3-0 at Previous Trafford thanks to 2 objectives from Luis Diaz and a twelfth strike in opposition to United for Mohamed Salah.
Newly-promoted Southampton, in the meantime, have misplaced all three of their video games again within the high flight and sit within the backside three alongside Everton and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
