Erik ten Hag makes use of Cristiano Ronaldo analogy to reward Marcus Rashford after Southampton purpose
Erik ten Hag has backed Marcus Rashford to begin racking up the objectives after ending his drought in Manchester United’s 3-0 win over Southampton, borrowing a quote from Cristiano Ronaldo within the course of.
The under-fire Rashford, who has misplaced his place within the England setup, ended a run of 12 video games with out a purpose as he added United’s second towards the Saints on Saturday with a fierce low strike. It was a much-needed enhance for Rashford, who confronted important criticism for a poor efficiency towards Liverpool earlier than the worldwide break.
Praising the United academy graduate, Ten Hag used Ronaldo’s 14-year-old comparability of objectives to ketchup – the concept “when it comes out [of the bottle] all of it comes out directly”.
“As soon as a striker was speaking a few ketchup bottle, as soon as it is going, it is coming extra,” Ten Hag mentioned, notably declining to call Ronaldo. “It is rather vital for him.
“We do not take note of what the skin world is telling [us], but it surely was an excessive amount of negativity to him as a result of he created two nice probabilities [against Liverpool], 100% probabilities in that sport and in addition in different video games. He was taking part in very effectively and deserved a purpose. Then you definitely get your reward.
“He scored an important purpose and for his age, the variety of objectives he has is superb, and I am positive he’ll rating many extra objectives. To get into the season for each striker it’s so vital to be on the scoresheet so you may construct momentum, construct perception after which extra objectives can come.”
Ten Hag’s call-back to Ronaldo comes only a few days after the boss hit again on the Portugal worldwide’s criticism of his administration model.
