Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag mentioned he anticipated striker Marcus Rashford to keep up his “performance level” after lauding the England worldwide’s excellent solo objective in a 2-0 League Cup win over Burnley. United, already forward by means of Christian Eriksen‘s Twenty seventh-minute opener at Old Trafford on Wednesday, doubled their lead simply shy of the hour mark when Rashford, recent from scoring three targets on the World Cup, ran from inside his personal and into the Clarets’ penalty space earlier than his low shot hit the again of the web. It was a powerful method for Rashford to mark his return to membership following England’s agonising quarter-final exit on the World Cup.

“I think he invested a lot, once again, with a lot of runs in behind the defending line, and then he scored a great goal in a dribble, great finish,” Ten Hag mentioned.

“I think he’s in great form, and of course I hope he can keep in this focus and performance.”

Rashford has now scored 9 targets in all competitions for United up to now this season, with Ten Hag including: “I think he is on a very good level, his performances are improving a lot from game to game. He’s a continual threat, but also in many other games this season, he’s scored already a lot of goals and also does a lot of defending work, don’t forget that.

“I’m actually completely happy along with his performances and I hope and I count on him to maintain going on this angle and this efficiency stage.”

Wednesday’s match was additionally United’s first sport because the exit of Cristiano Ronaldo, who left Old Trafford following a controversial tv interview through which he mentioned he felt “betrayed” by the club and had no respect for Ten Hag.

Ten Hag did not mention Ronaldo in his programme notes on Wednesday, having already spoken about the Portuguese forward’s departure, and was in no mood to return to the subject after United had eased into the last eight of the League Cup.

“We made an announcement and we glance to the longer term,” said Ten Hag, who then asked if it was a good thing in his position that the matter was now closed, nodded and added: “So it’s.”

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