Garnacho will hope that his early-season choices have now put him in an excellent place for a beginning spot this weekend towards Brighton & Hove Albion.
That call, in fact, in the end rests with Ten Hag, who was desirous to state the significance of final week’s supporting forged, backed by the United supervisor’s choice for referring to ‘finishers’ fairly than substitutes.
“Present it [deserving a starting spot] day by day on the coaching pitch and, in fact, in each minute you may get,” the boss mentioned. “That’s not solely concerning the starters, but in addition the finishers. So I used to be very happy final week with the 2 gamers who got here on, Zirkzee and Garnacho, making a distinction.
“That’s what we want all through the entire season, as we all know we don’t win with simply 11 gamers in video games and in between video games, you want greater than 11 gamers to win the soccer video games.”