A year ago, Rasmus Hojlund became the youngest player to achieve in six consecutive Premier League matches.
A year later, Dane passed 14 games in all scoring competitions, nine Premier League games came during that run, without any goal.
The Hojlund Return for this season’s league campaign is equally subject to only two. But after the promise of signs in his first season, why did Hojlund’s form massively decline?
The 22-year-old has been a preferred Ruben amorim option in the central forward since the Portuguese took over Old Trafford in November. Containing in all, except one of the first 13 excursions in Amorim, Hojlund also started eight of these games. However, faith shown in United’s no. 9, from her boss, did not translate to exit.
Amorim’s arrival of the United Fans dreamed of what possible impact on Hojlund. Comparisons were withdrawn with Viktor Gyokores, who developed under the amorim into one of Europe’s most sought after in Europe.
On the eye, the couple shares some parallels as willing runners and attackers enjoying a physical battle, but currently, comparisons end up at that superficial level.
Among the Premier League attackers who played at least 432 minutes (32) this season, Hojlund takes the least shots per game. Hojlund is also in the lower two for xg and 0.20 generated per game.
His six -goal goals in the Premier League followed after a long waiting at 14 games in the first in English top flight. Running embodied what he could be a striker, with various goals scored, some like thieves, while others showed calmness, where he managed to find the yard for himself before shipping.
This term, criticism that equalized on the young striker was to struggle to find the right positions on the field to maximize potential opportunities. With only five 2.83 touches of 90 minutes played in the opposition area this season in the Premier League, Hojlund was among those with the least.
In January, he admitted that the problems of Rasmus Hojlunda in front of the goal were not exclusively the problem of H
“I think that’s more of a problem with that than a problem of straws,” I told Amor.
“You can see it, it’s not only from now, but from the past. So, obviously we have a lack of goals and a lack of threat.
“All players have moments this season. I think when we started this trip together, Rasmus was a player who always scored a hit.”
H Significantly, United’s £ 72m signature has entered the fierce row with Amad Diall during the United 2-1 Europa League win against Viktoria Plzen after a wing player chosen for a goal rather than playing the ball in Hojlund.
Again, during the victory of the FA Cup over Leicester, the decision of Alejandra Garnacho to shoot from a close angle, instead of playing the ball in the box, she saw that Hojlund had let his frustration once again know. It is a behavior that I am believed to believe his striker should be accepted.
“I think that’s a good thing. I won’t say one word bad about this type of behavior,” he told Amor after the game.
“He has to understand that sometimes he has to do a job without touching the ball.
“It can’t be frustrated so much because in the next game it may have a situation near the goal. So it has to be calm.
“But this is a character, and if you know so many players from this kind of character that has from that country, they always want more. They want to achieve critics.
“So that’s a good thing, but he’ll improve. And the attacker needs a very good team that will give him very good balls for him, and we are not helping our attackers right now.”
As much as H Captain Bruno Fernandes’ creative numbers, although they are favorable, do not tell the story of what is happening on the field.
Fernandes tried the second most popular third pass and created the fourth most important chance in the Premier League, but the United focus in wider areas has a harmful effect on Hojlund numbers.
Despite the excessive reliance on any side, it is clear that United’s wider players must change focus to allow Hojlund to progress.
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