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Erik ten Hag admitted that he had no plans to play the quantity 10 function when he signed Wout Weghorst on mortgage in January.
The 1.99-foot striker began his life at Outdated Trafford within the conventional middle ahead place, however was slid again into the outlet to nice impact in United’s final two video games.
To everybody’s shock, Weghorst performed for 90 minutes in opposition to Barcelona within the first leg of the Europa League qualifying spherical at quantity 10 with Marcus Rashford on the middle again and Bruno Fernandes on the extensive proper.
Requested club media If that is a task in thoughts for Weghorst, Ten Hag replied:
“Really no. In recent times he is truly solely performed as a ahead however I do know from a really lengthy historical past that he might play there. He is achieved it earlier than.
“I believe he might play very properly there in a sure function, and we have seen that. In Leeds, he did this a part of the sport and yesterday [against Barcelona] He did it for greater than 90 minutes.
“I believe he was fairly profitable, not only for him, I believe he loved being there. He had an impression on the sport however his function for the group was actually essential.
“I believe he let the others play higher and that is what he did as a ahead. He lets his different teammates rating.”
With Marcus Rashford, who has a wealthy goal-scoring type, the transfer made quite a lot of sense and proved to be an modern feat from the United supervisor.
It appears like Weghorst will likely be again on the bench as soon as Anthony Martial regains his type, one thing Ten Hag stated may very well be simply across the nook.
When requested about attainable availability of injured gamers for the Leicester sport, Ten Hag stated: “Perhaps. we now have to attend till tomorrow. [Sunday]. Perhaps one or two gamers can come again, sure.”
Regardless of the case, the Dutch’s bodily presence in any of those ahead positions is a handful for any protection, and it is very possible that Ten Hag will likely be making heavy use of him between at this time and the top of the season.
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