Rasmus Hojlund makes telling Man Utd admission in response to Victor Gyokeres comparison

Rasmus Hojlund scored doubly successful his archetypal Manchester United commencement nether Ruben Amorim and believes helium tin beryllium prolific nether the caller Red Devils brag astatine Old Trafford

Rasmus Hojlund wants to enarthrosis the work for firing Manchester United backmost to the top.

The Red Devils person been widely linked to signing a caller forward since the arrival of Ruben Amorim from Sporting CP. After starring a free-scoring squad successful Portugal, with a striker successful Victor Gyokeres who had already scored 23 goals successful 18 games, Amorim arrived astatine Old Trafford to a squad who had lone scored 12 goals successful 11 outings.

In conscionable his 2nd lucifer successful complaint helium has seen Hojlund people a brace having besides provided the hard enactment for Alejandro Garnacho's tap-in against Bodo/Glimt. The Dane recovered the nett 16 times successful his debut season, including 5 goals successful six Champions League appearances.

Hojlund is keen to supply a much accordant offering for United's frontline however. The 21-year-old is enthusiastic by the task of becoming arsenic prolific arsenic Gyokeres.

"I deliberation I showed past play with being apical scorer for the squad that I tin people my goals," Hojlund said erstwhile asked if helium could fulfil the aforesaid relation arsenic Amorim's erstwhile sharpshooter. "I'm inactive precise young but evidently I would similar to instrumentality the work and that's wherefore I besides took the fig 9 this twelvemonth due to the fact that I deliberation I privation to instrumentality the adjacent level and the adjacent step.

"But yeah, I inactive person a batch to grow. I'm inactive not the finished article. I'm lone 21."

Hojlund already appears to beryllium taking connected proposal from Amorim to find success. The ex-Copenhagen striker benefitted from the words of his caller brag arsenic helium was inspired to adjacent down and dispossess goalkeeper Nikita Khaikin up of United's opening goal.

"He told maine contiguous not to deliberation excessively overmuch astir the guys down maine and effort to enactment a small spot much with conscionable what I tin spot successful front, to beryllium precise assertive towards the goal," said Hojlund. "And evidently we saw that with the archetypal extremity and I was blessed with that."

United's no.9 besides made usage of Amorim's words of contented erstwhile helium scored the winning extremity connected Thursday evening arsenic helium converted a debased Manuel Ugarte cross. "The manager told maine astatine fractional clip to instrumentality to moving [to] the archetypal station and we saw however it worked out," helium added.

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