Man United’s Garnacho channels Rooney with overhead goal،
Alejandro Garnacho has the potential to be one of the best players in the world, according to Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag, after comparing Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo for his wonder goal in a 3-0 win over Everton on Sunday .
Garnacho, 19, scored a spectacular third-minute spot-kick at Goodison Park with a strike similar to Rooney’s against Manchester City in 2011. Ronaldo also scored a stunt kick for Real Madrid against Juventus in 2018, but Ten Hag said that despite Garnarcho’s kick. bright future, he has work to do before he is considered on par with two of football’s greats.
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“Don’t compare, I don’t think it’s fair,” Ten Hag said. “They all have their own identity, but for Garnacho to follow this path he has a lot to do, he has to work very hard. You have to do it consistently and so far he hasn’t done that.
“But he certainly has great potential to do incredible things, it’s not the first time we’ve seen him. We’ve had glimpses of him many times before, but if you want to be a player like Rooney or Ronaldo you have to score 20, 25 goals in “
Everton manager Sean Dyche called Garnacho’s strike “the goal of his life”, while Ten Hag said it was already the goal of the season.
“It was a fantastic goal,” Ten Hag said. “In the season there are still a lot of games to play, but maybe that’s already the goal of the season. Not just the finish, it was the comeback all the way but the end was incredible. “
The result was United’s biggest Premier League win of the season and lifted the Ten Hag side to sixth in the table ahead of two more tough away games against Galatasaray in the Champions League and Newcastle United this week.
“It was a good performance today,” Ten Hag said. The start was very good, exactly as we expected, we scored a great goal, not only at the end. But then in the first half we were too passive, too easy, too easy. easy.
“I wasn’t happy with that part of the game and Everton created a few chances, but in the second half we were proactive and it was a very good performance and we scored two good goals.”
For his part, Garnacho seemed surprised to have succeeded in his shot, slightly further from the goal than Rooney’s.
“I can’t believe it,” Garnacho said. “To be honest, I looked back and thought, ‘Oh my God.'”
