Erik ten Hag mentioned Marcus Rashford may be “unstoppable” for Man Utd after the England striker scored his fifth objective in as many video games and arrange two others in a 3-1 FA Cup win over Everton.
Rashford laid on Antony’s fourth minute opener, then performed within the cross that compelled Conor Coady into an personal objective early within the second half, earlier than making it seven straight house video games with a objective for Man Utd as he scored a stoppage time penalty.
“From the primary minute I believe Marcus was the one who confirmed the boldness and the assumption,” Ten Hag mentioned. “He was taking over gamers and I believe for 90 minutes he was a risk to the Everton defence.”
Man Utd ahead Rashford is now as much as 13 objectives for the season, on track to beat his earlier greatest tally of twenty-two, achieved in 2019-20, if he can keep match.
“In soccer it’s arduous to measure however with a striker you measure objectives and assists – right this moment he has two assists and one objective,” Ten Hag added. “He has incredible expertise and when he has psychological stability he can maintain going.
“That calls for loads from us as a group and an organisation to verify we now have the appropriate surroundings and tradition. When he retains focus like this for certain he can maintain this going…
“As a group we now have to verify we create the area, enjoying to his strengths. That’s about Marcus doing rather well but in addition the group, stepping into the shapes. I believe he’s unstoppable together with his pace, his dribbles and his directness.”
Man Utd can now stay up for Sunday’s fourth spherical draw, however maybe extra importantly have stored their profitable run – now as much as seven video games forward of Tuesday’s Carabao Cup fixture in opposition to Charlton – going as Premier League fixtures in opposition to Manchester Metropolis and Arsenal loom later this month.
“I believe we now have good perception,” Ten Hag mentioned. “We’ve got to maintain the freshness with so many video games. I believe with one or two gamers we might see the load was excessive, we now have to verify we get the appropriate steadiness with load and leisure for the gamers.
“The video games maintain coming and it is a good problem. After we face the massive video games like Metropolis and Arsenal the bodily efficiency needs to be prime.”
Though relegation-threatened Everton endured an eighth recreation and not using a win, under-pressure Frank Lampard was inspired by the way in which his gamers responded to their capitulation in Tuesday’s 4-1 house defeat to Brighton within the Premier League.
“The efficiency was on an identical stage and presumably higher in an attacking sense than at Manchester Metropolis (final weekend),” he mentioned. “We bought a draw at Metropolis and I believe we deserved a draw right this moment.
“I used to be actually happy with the spirit and the bravery of the group. We didn’t get the end result, that’s typically how soccer goes. If you’ve bought a person of Rashford’s high quality they’ve their moments.”
Though the 9,000 travelling Everton followers ceaselessly chanted “sack the board”, they didn’t activate the gamers or the supervisor at Outdated Trafford, and stayed behind to applaud their efforts in defeat.
“I believe the response on the finish of the sport spells it out,” Lampard mentioned. “They noticed the spirit within the group, the way in which we play and I believe they noticed we deserved to get a draw.”
Everton had seemed shaky early on, however after Coady cancelled out Antony’s opener within the 14th minute they battled nicely.
However a nasty wanting damage for Alex Iwobi – who went off on a stretcher early within the second half – got here simply earlier than United retook the lead.
“It’s an ankle ligament damage,” Lampard mentioned. “We’re hoping it’s a lesser one however I don’t know the extent of it. He left on crutches.”
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