{"id":289600,"date":"2023-09-03T22:30:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/?p=289600"},"modified":"2023-09-03T22:30:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T22:30:51","slug":"gary-neville-heaps-praise-on-manchester-united-striker-rasmus-hojlund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allmysportsnews.com\/soccer\/gary-neville-heaps-praise-on-manchester-united-striker-rasmus-hojlund\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Neville heaps praise on Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gary Neville heaped praise on Rasmus Hojlund after he made his Manchester debut in the 3-1 defeat by Arsenal on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Erik ten Hag’s side suffered their second defeat of the season as Declan Rice and Gabriel Jesus struck for the Gunners deep into injury-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After previously being ruled out by injury following his \u00a372m move to United, Hojlund marked his debut as he came off the bench to replace Anthony Martial in the second-half.<\/p>\n
The Danish striker displayed glimpses of his quality at the Emirates Stadium and Neville believes he could be the answer to United’s long search for a prolific striker.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking on Sky Sports, the former defender said: ‘Manchester United haven\u2019t had a striker that they can hit. That\u2019s the problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Rasmus Hojlund came off the bench to make his Man United debut against Arsenal on Sunday<\/p>\n
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Rasmus Hojlund came off the bench to make his Man United debut against Arsenal on Sunday<\/p>\n
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Gary Neville says Hojlund could be the answer to United’s search search for a prolific striker<\/p>\n
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Hojlund’s debut at the Emirates ended in despair as United lost via two injury-time goals<\/p>\n
‘Cristiano Ronaldo wasn\u2019t a classic targetman, Martial\u2019s certainly not, Rashford\u2019s not. At least they\u2019ve got someone who looks he\u2019ll mess people around and get his body in there. He\u2019s aggressive, and he\u2019s a runner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘The thing for him is he\u2019s learning the game still. He\u2019s only played a couple of seasons of top level football and we\u2019re expected him to be Erling Haaland. That\u2019s the problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Manchester United haven\u2019t got anyone else with experience to back him up. We\u2019ve been watching Martial for 9-10 years at Manchester United and he\u2019s not what Erik ten Hag wants. This lad, lot of pressure on him, big price tag, but it was an encouraging start.’<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, United boss Ten Hag felt his side should have been awarded a penalty after Hojlund went down inside the box from a challenge by Gabriel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said: ‘The performance is right, we played a good game but everything went against us. And then you don\u2019t win the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘You saw the game, it’s not offside, that is the wrong angle, then a penalty on Hojlund, we concede a goal and that is a foul on Jonny Evans.’<\/p>\n
United were level at 1-1 after Marcus Rashford’s opener was cancelled out by Martin Odegaard, before Arsenal’s record signing Rice secured a 96th minute winner which was shortly followed by Gabriel Jesus netting on his return from injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n