Erik ten Hag sounds warning over Mason Mount and Rasmus Hojlund's Man Utd returns

Manchester United brag Erik 10 Hag said lessons person been learned from past play and vowed to dainty Rasmus Hojlund and Mason Mount otherwise successful presumption of their respective returns

Erik 10 Hag says Manchester United volition easiness Rasmus Hojlund and Mason Mount backmost into enactment – aft admitting players were overloaded past season.

Hojlund and Mount are backmost successful training, aft recovering from injury, up of United's Premier League travel to Crystal Palace connected Saturday. Last season, United suffered an unprecedented wounded crisis, with 66 abstracted issues affecting players passim the campaign.

Ten Hag admitted losing truthful galore players past play meant others were forced to play excessively galore games, starring them to interruption down themselves.

The United brag said lessons person been learned from past play and vowed to dainty Hojlund and Mount otherwise successful presumption of their respective returns.

"You person to beryllium careful,” said Ten Hag. “In apical football, you ever spell to boundaries. When you person a afloat squad available, past it’s easier to negociate the load. When you are successful circumstances similar past play and there's a request to play, we had to overload them. We anticipation we tin integrate them successful a precise cautious way."‌

United were humbled 4-0 astatine Palace connected their past sojourn to Selhurst Park successful May, though Ten Hag was without cardinal players for that game, with midfielder Casemiro forced to play successful cardinal defence.‌ This time, Ten Hag has much options and unit astatine his disposal and said United are amended equipped to woody with the situation that awaits them.

“The circumstances successful that moment, from February onwards, we had to find each clip 11 players to conception a team,” said Ten Hag. Now we are successful a antithetic spot - we person 18 players to take from and we tin prime a team.”

Before United's 7-0 mauling of Barnsley successful the Carabao Cup connected midweek, Ten Hag said winger Antony had to gain the close to commencement regularly. The £86million signing scored successful that emphatic triumph and Ten Hag said Antony produced the cleanable response.

“I deliberation each subordinate should springiness those reactions,” said Ten Hag. “You person to bid hard, you person to execute successful training, you person to gain a close to play and erstwhile it's your chance, you person to instrumentality it.

“But the manager tin lone prime 11 players and marque 5 subs. So you person to marque definite you person those players [available] successful each crippled and performing connected a accordant ground execute and, astir importantly, erstwhile the accidental is there, you person to execute and lend to a winning team.”

On Marcus Rashford, who has 3 goals successful his past 2 games, Ten Hag said: “Strikers request that belief, present we person a fewer players connected the scoring list, it's precise bully for the team, it volition fortify their content and they volition spell for much and spell for much goals.”

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