Erik Ten Hag: Goals Will Come For Rashford – Consistency The Problem

Manchester United prepare to take on Brentford at the weekend. Back-to-back defeats in the Premier League and Champions League will surely fuel United’s desire to end on a high before the October international break.

Marcus Rashford has struggled for form this season. He’s only scored once in the opening 10 matches across all coemptions. The goal came in United’s 3-1 defeat to Arsenal. Rashford netted 30 times for Man Utd last season. Manager Erik Ten Hag isn’t worried about Rashford and has said his form will return in time:

“It’s normal when you’re not in the same levels. Everyone knows the qualities of him. But if the team is doing the right things, putting him in the right places and we’ve seen him coming in the right positions, but he’s struggling, it will pass. Everyone at Manchester United backs him. The team supports and believes in him. I’m sure with that confidence of the team behind him this will change. It will pass.

“Strikers when they don’t score, they need one goal and they step over it. It will come. He is so experienced. He knows when he and the team are doing the right things, the momentum will come and he’ll be on fire.”

Ten Hag claims main reason for Man Utd’s horrendous start to the season is down to inconsistency within the team:

“Consistency. That is the problem. In parts of the game, big parts, we do things right. But we have moments where we are struggling. In this moment you can’t survive. Be consistent in communication, to keep organisation. Decisive moments are going against us we lose a little bit as a team. In 95 per cent of games we are a team. We have to step up.”

Brentford manager Thomas Frank is ready for tomorrows clash and says there’s huge pressure for United to win:

“They (United) need to bounce back, to come flying out. Of course there is pressure on them to beat Brentford,” Frank said.

“Manchester United is a massive club and the pressure is there for them to win every game, so I don’t think it makes that big a difference that we are coming there and they have not been playing that well.

“I am always in doubt when you meet a team which has great momentum, is that bad? Or will that momentum end one day? I don’t know.”

Brentford haven’t won a game since August but it seems Old Trafford is one of the best places to go this season if your team needs a win. United have lost their last two Premier League matches at home making Old Trafford more of a walk in the park than the fortress it once was.

Man United v Brentford – Saturday 7th October – 3pm

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