Neville claims Man Utd starlet is 'Haaland in the making'; Ten Hag will 'fancy hunting down' Spurs, Villa

Gary Neville has likened Individual Utd demonstrator Rasmus Hojlund to Individual Municipal virtuosi Erling Haaland after his recent plan-scoring rushed.

The Denmark international fought early on in the period for objectives as the Red Satanic pressures gained a slow-sliding-sliding prelude to their second project under Erik 10 Hag.

Hojlund, that scored five Champions League objectives before Ten Hag’s males fled the competition in the team phase, possessed to delay till Boxing Day versus Aston Villa to ranking his first Premier League plan as Individual Utd won 3-2.

But the £72m summer season season signing has been in genius plan-scoring kind since then scoring eight objectives in his last eight strengthens in with one voice competitions for Individual Utd.

Haaland has persisted his genius kind for Individual Municipal from last period, in spite of absent several probabilities in their 1-1 draw versus Chelsea over the weekend break, and Neville assumes Hojlund is Haaland “in the rendering”.

Neville said on Firmament Sporting activities’ The Gary Neville Podcast: “Hojlund sifted pick a Haaland in the rendering – that power, that stability and belligerence in his sprinting. I’ve always pick that about a Manchester United centre-forward.”

Hojlund was on the scoresheet twice as Individual Utd vanquished Luton Territory 2-1 at Kenilworth Highway on Sunday and Neville was jubilant to search through the Red Satanic pressures pick up with one voice 3 times.

Neville added:”The second fifty percent was much more described than the first, it was a reputed performance, more summarized. Evans and Varane sifted composed and the midfield took manipulate of the arcade. They possessed 4 significant probabilities, nicely done to Thomas Kaminski – he did actually nicely.

“But they couldn’t enveloping Luton off. United possessed to safeguard their box nicely as Luton possessed five sides in the last couple of minutes, Evans annihilated 3 of them. At a headway wherein it’s ago to the olden days, it really felt pick an FA Cup tie – and it was a check-up of United’s spunk to safeguard kit-wares and bargain wearing it. They did that in the second fifty percent.”

Individual Utd are presently on a rushed of five wins on the bounce in with one voice competitions, while Ten Hag’s side are in a identical means unbeaten in seven strengthens.

Neville persisted: “You can really feel Ten Hag is more confident in his team and that they’re in a much more described freedom. He’ll intricate scouting down Tottenham and Villa for the peak 4. They’ll be endure the strains.

“I’m not motto Individual Utd will derive there but there is a compact in between their teeth.”

Chatting after the match, Ten Hag said: “We are ago in the race and are constructing momentum. We have to construct the strains on them. Every arcade is a final to derive chummy.

“It can’ve been an straightforward arcade after 10 minutes but we gained it a arduous arcade as we didn’t snatch the probabilities. We possessed significant probabilities wearing (Alejandro) Garnacho and (Marcus) Rashford and then we depreciated also deep. We permitted them ago in the arcade.

“Probably it was also straightforward in the first 10 minutes – you search through wearing some players they go a compact compact much less, you can’t coordinate to implement that versus a side pick Luton that are on an upward pattern. You have to be 100 per dime concentrated and that’s what we squandered after 10 minutes.”