Erik ten Hag hailed Antony‘s lethal partnership with Marcus Rashford as Manchester United’s new signing scored on his debut whereas his strike associate’s brace despatched Arsenal crashing to 3-1 defeat on Sunday. Antony made a dream debut because the Brazil ahead scored simply 35 minutes into his first look following his 82 million kilos (USD 94 million) transfer from Ajax. Some pundits questioned United’s determination to splash out such a giant charge on the 22-year-old. However Ten Hag is aware of all about Antony from their time collectively at Ajax, the place the United supervisor labored earlier than taking cost of the Premier League membership in the summertime.
And Antony appeared to the manor born as he unfurled an array of abilities and clever play to dazzle the Previous Trafford crowd.
He shaped an prompt relationship with fellow ahead Rashford, who supplied an astute help for Antony’s medical end.
After Bukayo Saka’s equaliser, Rashford took the sport away from Arsenal with a pair of composed strikes to finish the Premier League leaders’ excellent begin to the season.
“They each performed nice, a continuing menace. I do know our offensive is actually sturdy, they’re inventive and have velocity,” Ten Hag stated of Antony and Rashford.
“That is the primary time they’ve performed collectively and this efficiency is nice to see.
“I assumed the primary 10 minutes was the perfect we’ve performed to date this season.”
Arsenal had gained their first 5 video games however United’s four-match successful run is their longest within the Premier League since successful 5 in a row in 2021 below Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
It’s precisely the form of streak Ten Hag wanted his crew to go after his reign began with embarrassing defeats in opposition to Brighton and Brentford.
The 4-0 loss at Brentford was particularly chastening, however since then Ten Hag has acquired the response he needed after calling for his gamers to point out extra starvation and character.
“We’re comfortable and glad with the win, additionally the efficiency in opposition to a very good crew,” Ten Hag stated.
“The spirit from this crew, they’ll cope with setbacks. It’s actually nice and reveals your mentality. Now we have actually improved on that.
“Now we have the best characters and now it’s about cooperation. Now we have to remain calm, keep composed and play our sport.”
Previous Trafford was buzzing within the aftermath of one other encouraging outcome that confirmed United’s 2-1 success in opposition to bitter rivals Liverpool was no fluke.
However, nicely conscious of the failings in a crew that completed a woeful sixth final season, Ten Hag warned United to not get carried away.
The successful streak has lifted them to fifth place after they had been backside of the desk following the Brentford debacle, but Ten Hag sees loads of room for enchancment.
“We might’ve performed issues higher however we aren’t as lengthy collectively as Arsenal,” he stated.
“After we get that we are going to have higher management of the sport. That is arduous work. There’s plenty of room for enchancment.
“We will have higher urgent and organisation. We will management the sport extra.
“We may be higher in possession with higher composure on the ball then we’ll dictate the sport much more.
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“We have not been collectively lengthy so we’ll work on it. You possibly can see that Arsenal are extra collectively, however our crew spirit brings us the win.”
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