While Cristiano Ronaldo he crushes himself mercilessly at home, only illusion is breathed with just two weeks to go before the start of the Premier in a Manchester United that does not long for the Portuguese at the moment. The ‘red devils’ enjoy the fresh air that the arrival of Erik Ten Hag to the shaky bench at Old Trafford since Alex Ferguson left. It’s still summer, but everything is perfect at the moment with three wins and a draw in this preseason -highlighting the 4-0 against Liverpool-, and one of the men of the moment, Jadon Sanchois full of praise for the work of the Dutch coach.
“We look like a completely different team. Last year was not good and I feel like We all have something to prove for this season.” The 22-year-old winger reflected in statements to the club collected by Daily Mail, a paradigm of the vitality that United gives off in the run-up to the Premier with three goals in the four friendlies played to date against the ‘reds’ (4-0), Melbourne Victory (1-4), Crystal Palace (3-1) y Aston Villa (2-2).
Sancho emphasized the work of Ten Hag, who this summer has become the sixth Manchester coach since Ferguson’s retirement, not counting the provisional coaches after David Moyes, Louis Van Gaal, José Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Ralf Rangnick. “Training is being really positive and everyone is paying attention to what Ten Hag is saying. You can see it in the games, creating more chances, keeping the ball more and doing good things with the style we’re playing. We’re getting better.” highlighted the young English international, only 22 years.
Despite his youth, in a show of maturity, the winger made a kind of harsh act of contrition by putting himself in the shoes of the ‘red devil’ fans: “We don’t want to play games like last year’s and bother the fans. Some went to the field for a long time to see us not play,” Jadon Sancho warned. Since 2017 -when United lifted the Carabao Cup and the Europa League with ‘Mou’-, Old Trafford has had to take refuge in its tradition as a consolation for its bleak present, without titles in the last five years and with the aggravating circumstance this next course of not playing Champions.
Pretemporada Manchester United
Results and scorers
ManU 4-0 Liverpool (Sancho, Fred, Martia, Pellistri)
Melbourne Victory 1-4 ManU (McTominay, Martial, Rashford y Lupancu)
ManU 3-1 Crystal Palace (Martial, Rashford, Sancho)
ManU 2-2 Aston Villa (Sancho and Cash)
To Manchester, which debuts on august 7th in his temple against Brighton, he has two more pre-season friendlies left and against Spanish teams: he will face Atlético at Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo next Saturday, the 30th (1:45 p.m.) and at Rayo Vallecano the following Sunday, the 31st, at Old Trafford (5:00 p.m.), in the last rehearsal. Apart from the entrenched Christian case, Another of the unknowns is the possible arrival of Frenkie De Jong.
To date, there have been three signings from United, who have paid 57 million to Ajax for Lisandro Martinez (central) and 15 to Feyenoord for Tyrell Macia (left side), while Christian Eriksen, having already forgotten his heart problems, he has arrived free from Brentford. He has also returned from his loan to Sevilla Anthony Martial, one of the most pleasant news so far this summer with his three goals.
“Last year some fans went to the field for a long time to see us not play”
In the casualties chapter, there have been several marches: Andreas Pereira (Fulham), Jesse Lingard (Nottingham Forest), Nemanja Matic (Rome), the questioned Paul Pogba (Juventus) and Edinson Cavani y Juan Mata, At the moment without a team, in addition to goalkeeper Lee Grant, retired. The attractive football with which, above all, he captivated Europe with Ajax in 2019 -the ‘ajacied’ were semifinalists in a Champions League remembered for their 1-4 at the Bernabéu-, is currently exciting at United.
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