Erik ten Hag reveals motive behind Jadon Sancho’s goalscoring enchancment

Erik ten Hag has attributed Jadon Sancho’s goalscoring type to his spectacular pre-season work on his energy and physicality.

The England worldwide netted simply three objectives in his debut season with Manchester United however has two in his first 5 video games beneath Erik ten Hag, together with the winner in Thursday’s 1-0 victory over Leicester Metropolis.

After the sport, Ten Hag admitted Sancho might have discovered the transition to English soccer considerably of a tradition shock, however now that he has embraced it, the boss predicted loads extra objectives in Sancho’s future.

“I feel he had fairly a very good pre-season,” Ten Hag stated. “He understands now he has to put money into the bodily and that’s what he did and now he can get the reward and that’s what he has to convey. I am positive it is the beginning for him.

“Along with his potential, there’s far more room for enchancment, he could be much more necessary and contribute together with his creativity and scoring objectives and assists. With the defending half, he could be much more necessary.

“Sure, I feel he can [become a prolific goalscorer]. He has the capabilities and he did it additionally in a special league, however that is Premier League, so the depth is larger, so he has to adapt to that, mentally and bodily. The capabilities are there, the abilities.”

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In addition to praising Sancho, Ten Hag was additionally eager to provide some credit score to Marcus Rashford for registering his first help of the marketing campaign.

He informed MUTV: “I’m actually completely happy for him [Sancho] and likewise the help for Rashford is nice.

“It’s the reward, they each work actually onerous, they invested quite a bit in pre-season they usually do lot for the workforce with their urgent.”