Rasmus Hojlund has woken up The Danish, which in the summer many classified as the Erling Haaland of Manchester Unitedhave silenced with goals the critical voices that emerged after a difficult first few months at Old Trafford.
The 74 million euros paid by United of a player who, in his first and only year at Atalanta He scored only 10 goals, they were heavy for the Dane, who was only 21 years old. Despite being attached to the lineups of Erik ten Haag In the beginning, the goals didn’t come, especially in the Premier League.
The Champions League, another story
Another story is the Champions League, a competition where Hojlund scored five goals in six games but where the ‘red devils’, were placed in Group A with Bayern Munich, Galatasaray and Copenhagenwas eliminated in the first stage after achieving only one victory and conceding 15 goals.
With the Unitedbottom of their group, eliminated from all European competition, the awakening of Hojlund, without a goal in his first 14 Premier games. Dubbed, almost derogatorily, as ‘Haaland of the Hacendado’ due to his apparent lack of goals, the Scandinavian is proving to be a premium ‘killer’.
It premiered on December 26, 2023, in victory over Aston Villa (3-2), and since then he has not stopped, becoming on Sunday, at Kenilworth Road, the youngest player (21 years and 14 days) to score in six consecutive Premier matches, in which he scored a total of seven targets. .
Source: La Verdad
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