{"id":23992,"date":"2024-02-05T21:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/23992\/hojlund-garnacho-mainoo-show-man\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T21:54:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T18:54:48","slug":"hojlund-garnacho-mainoo-show-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=23992","title":{"rendered":"H\u00f8jlund, Garnacho, Mainoo show Man United&#8217;s bright future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00f8jlund, Garnacho, Mainoo show Man United&#8217;s bright future\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson, correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">February 4, 2024, 5:29 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>MANCHESTER, England &#8211; Whatever happens at Manchester United between now and the end of the season, manager Erik ten Hag can at least point to the emergence of Rasmus H\u00f8jlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo as bright spots in an otherwise campaign forgettable.<\/p>\n<p>It was fitting that the trio, all aged under 21, sat on the advertising boards outside the Stretford End after Garnacho scored United&#39;s second goal in a 3-0 <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> over West Ham on Sunday.  Ten Hag hopes the image will still be circulating and posted on social media in 10 years&#39; time &#8211; a first glimpse of the players who will become the core of United&#39;s next great team.  For now, though, it will be enough to give Ten Hag a rare comfortable day at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00f8jlund scored for the fourth consecutive Premier League match, on his 21st birthday, and Garnacho scored the other two as <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/united\/\"   title=\"United\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">United<\/a> won comfortably;  their first league victory at home with more than a goal difference this season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It has been a calamitous campaign at times, and even a positive afternoon for Ten Hag has been accompanied by a downside.  It was also an important event as defender Lisandro Mart\u00ednez, having just returned from a foot injury, was forced to retire with a worrying knee injury.  With Martinez, Casemiro and Luke Shaw returning from injury, United are starting to look more like the team that finished third last season and the last thing Ten Hag need is to be without Martinez for another prolonged period.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#39;s Choice<\/h2>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As miserable as some of the results have been this season, United are still playing for the FA Cup and a Champions League place.  As much as they need H\u00f8jlund to keep scoring and Mainoo to keep playing well, they also need Martinez and Casemiro to stay fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not telling you we\u2019re here, where we want, but you see the potential,\u201d Ten Hag said.  &#8220;We saw the potential in these players [H\u00f8jlund, Garnacho and Mainoo], but they need games.  They need experience, and the only way to get it is to play in the first team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have the right attitude and when you have the attitude to improve every day, I am convinced that they can reach high levels, but they need experienced players who have achieved everything to help them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When certain positions are not available, you have to be creative. We have certain moments of the season where you have to adapt to bring out an eleven. Now the danger comes from Licha Martinez, so I hope we don&#39;t come back back. it&#39;s not 11 players, it&#39;s 15 or 16, so hopefully we can keep them all fit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag is finally getting closer to the team he wanted all along.  H\u00f8jlund arrived from Atalanta injured and did not <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> a match until mid-September;  Martinez was injured in late September;  Casemiro was sent off in November;  Mainoo missed pre-season with a knee injury and was only fit enough to start a match for the first time in late November;  Shaw was away for three months between August and November.<\/p>\n<p>This meant that at different times Ten Hag&#39;s squad depth was tested as he was forced to choose Hannibal (now on loan at Sevilla), Facundo Pellistri (now on loan at Granada) and Sergio Reguil\u00f3n (still unwanted at Tottenham and now on loan to Brentford.)<\/p>\n<p>It will be a blow to lose Martinez for a while, but at least there is cover in central defense with Rapha\u00ebl Varane, Harry Maguire, Victor Lindel\u00f6f and Jonny Evans.  On the other hand, he has very few options to replace H\u00f8jlund, Casemiro and Shaw.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Rasmus H\u00f8jlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo have shone in recent matches. <cite>Martin Rickett\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ten Hag chose Maguire to partner Martinez at full-back against West Ham, and although the England defender had a tough time \u2013 he was robbed by Emerson Palmieri and lost a Jarrod Bowen point for the game&#39;s two best chances of West Ham \u2013 he still helped United secure a first Premier League clean sheet since the 0-0 draw with Liverpool on December 17 after conceding at least two goals in their previous five matches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only one game, so don\u2019t go celebrating it too much,\u201d Ten Hag said.  &#8220;I don&#39;t think we have reasons at the moment to do it, but for today we are satisfied. You need routines to get performances and you have to make split-second decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever you have to change teams, swap your centre-backs and your right-back for your left-back, it&#39;s about looking at each other and making the right decisions. Top-level <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">football<\/a> is all about details.<\/p>\n<p>There will come a time between now and the end of the season when Ten Hag will sit down with the club&#39;s new minority owner, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, to discuss whether or not he is the <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">man<\/a> to take United forward.  Ratcliffe&#39;s mission is to bring success back to Old Trafford after more than a decade of disappointment, and a decision on the manager will be an early test of his new regime.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag are battling a start to the season which saw United kicked out of Europe before Christmas and falling behind in the race for a top four finish.  But more comfortable days like this, with continued contribution from H\u00f8jlund, Garnacho and Mainoo, and he will be able to portend a bright future with himself at the helm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00f8jlund, Garnacho, Mainoo show Man United&#8217;s bright future\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentFebruary 4, 2024, 5:29 p.m. MANCHESTER, England &#8211; Whatever happens at Manchester United between now and the end of the season, manager Erik ten Hag can at least point to the emergence of Rasmus H\u00f8jlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Kobbie Mainoo as bright spots in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[870,53,3818,4793,6482,32,758,881],"class_list":["post-23992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-bright","tag-future","tag-garnacho","tag-hojlund","tag-mainoo","tag-man","tag-show","tag-uniteds"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23994,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23992\/revisions\/23994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}