Struggling Hojlund has better conversion rate than Haaland and Salah but Man Utd boss Amorim must fix dilemma

RASMUS HOJLUND has a amended accidental conversion complaint than Erling Haaland and Mo Salah since debuting for Manchester United past year.

The forward, inactive lone 21, joined the Red Devils for £72million successful the summertime of 2023, pursuing a solitary play astatine Atalanta.

Hojlund arrived astatine Old Trafford with United hopeless for a prolific striker.

And portion helium has shown signs of promise, helium has lone scored 18 goals successful 55 appearances for the Red Devils, 11 coming successful the Premier League.

Statistics show, however, that Hojlund is obscurity adjacent solely to blasted for his deficiency of goals.

In fact, since making his United debut, helium is among the Premier League's deadliest finishers.

Hojlund has a conversion complaint of 25.5 per cent, which puts him 4th successful the Premier League implicit this period.

Only Chris Wood (30.9), Jean-Philippe Mateta (28.8) and Hwang Hee-chan (27.5) person amended conversion rates successful that time.

Manchester City goal-machine Erling Haaland is astatine 21.2 per cent, albeit connected acold higher volume.

While Liverpool's Mo Salah is connected 18.3 per cent, again connected acold much attempts.

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SunSport revealed past weekend that Man Utd scouts were successful attendance to ticker Ruben Amorim's erstwhile Sporting striker Viktor Gyokeres successful enactment for Sweden.

But with Amorim acceptable to person to work with a reduced budget compared to his predecessor Erik 10 Hag, helium whitethorn person to prioritise getting much retired of his existent crop.

Speaking to the Telegraph, erstwhile Man Utd guardant Dion Dublin pointed retired that his aged broadside don't enactment successful capable prime crosses for Hojlund.

He said: "I inactive don’t hold with right-footers connected the near and left-footers connected the right.

"If you’re (Alejandro) Garnacho connected the near oregon Antony playing connected the right, each your crosses are going into the keeper – if you’re connected the different broadside they’re coming distant from the keeper and you person much country past to set arsenic a centre-forward."

"You besides get that reluctance to bushed the antheral connected the extracurricular and if you are playing inverted you person an excuse to support chopping backmost connected to your bully ft each the time, but determination shouldn’t beryllium immoderate excuse to present extremity product."

The Telegraph besides constituent retired that Hojlund receives conscionable 4.1 touches successful the absorption container and 1.5 shots per game, compared to Haaland's tallies of 7.1 and 4.5.

Where United fans tin clasp hope, however, is with the enactment Amorim did with Gyokeres successful Portugal.

The striker was already a bully subordinate up of the move, having banged goals successful for Coventry.

But things went up different notch successful Lisbon, with Gyokeres having netted an astonishing 66 times successful 68 matches for Sporting.

Irrespective of United's transportation fund successful upcoming windows, Hojlund volition person an accidental to beryllium that helium tin beryllium the club's prolific No9, and that they don't request to fork retired connected Gyokeres oregon different prima forward.

And United fans volition anticipation that helium tin present embark connected a affluent vein of form, starting this Sunday arsenic Amorim takes complaint of his archetypal crippled distant astatine Ipswich.