Man Utd beat Liverpool to give Ten Hag lift off

Man Utd beat Liverpool to give Ten Hag lift off
Manchester United’s Portuguese midfielder Bruno Fernandes (L) shakes hands with Liverpool’s Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk (C) as players react on the pitch after the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Liverpool at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on August 22, 2022. – Man Utd won the game 2-1. (Photo by Paul ELLIS / AFP)

Erik ten Hag got his most memorable success as Manchester United supervisor as goals from Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford beat Liverpool 2-1 at Old Trafford on Monday.

 

Subsequent to turning into the primary United chief in over hundred years to lose his initial two games, the previous Ajax director got the reaction he wanted in a hazardous opening half hour that shook Liverpool out of sorts.

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Anthony Elanga ought to have opened the scoring when he twisted off the foundation of the post after two passes from Scott McTominay and Bruno Fernandes cut Liverpool completely open.

Cautious confusion has been a continued coming up short of Liverpool’s winless beginning to the season and they neglected to become familiar with their example for the initial objective on 16 minutes.

 

A slick one-two among Elanga and Christian Eriksen opened up the Liverpool protection again and when the ball was scaled back to Sancho, he left James Milner on the floor before coolly opening home.

Milner returned up to face Virgil Van Dijk for his part in the objective as the Dutch protector sat off Sancho.

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Alisson Becker was then compelled to tip Eriksen’s plunging free-kick over before the guests had the option to reestablish some request in the end phases of the primary half.

Joined almost gifted them an adjuster when Fernandes shot Milner’s header towards his own objective and was lucky to see the ball bounce back ease off Lisandro Martinez on the line.

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Liverpool’s hesitance to revive Klopp’s midfield choices will confront more examination in the last days of the exchange window.

With Thiago Alcantara and Naby Keita out harmed, the 36-year-old Milner revealed how old he might have been and Klopp had not very many choices to go to on the seat with new 75 million euro (£64 million, $77 million) striker Darwin Nunez serving the first of a three-match boycott for being shipped off on his home introduction.

Liverpool’s absence of energy in midfield was uncovered for United’s second objective as Jordan Henderson’s unfortunate touch introduced ownership to Anthony Martial and his ideal through ball set Rashford allowed to score his most memorable objective since January.

Reestablishing Rashford’s certainty is one of the many assignments that actually lie ahead for Ten Hag.

Be that as it may, the England assailant seemed to be his old self and just a fine save from Alisson low to one side denied Rashford his second and United’s third.

Joined goalkeeper David de Gea’s blunder opened the conduits at Brentford however the Spaniard likewise had his impact in an evening of reclamation with a point-clear save from Luis Diaz.

Mohamed Salah’s header set up a show off finish a short ways from time, yet United gathered a steel seldom found in ongoing seasons to see out the end organizes and secure a genuinely necessary lift for their new chief.

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