Ten Hag hails Garnacho marvel objective

Alejandro Garnacho’s spectacular strike for Manchester United on Sunday might properly be the objective of the season, his supervisor Erik ten Hag mentioned, however he mentioned it was too quickly to be evaluating his younger participant with the likes of Wayne Rooney and Cristiano Ronaldo.

The 19-year-old scored with a surprising overhead kick within the third minute to fireplace United to a 3-0 victory over Everton at Goodison Park, leaping to satisfy Diogo Dalot’s cross with an acrobatic scissor kick into the highest proper nook that immediately drew comparisons with former United striker Rooney.

“The season, still many games to play, but probably already the goal of the season,” Ten Hag advised reporters. “It was incredible.”

The Argentinian teen mentioned he himself could not consider he had scored.

“I didn’t see how I scored, I just listened to the crowd,” Garnacho advised NBC. “One of the best goals I’ve scored, I’m very happy.”

The strike echoed targets by Rooney and fellow former United striker Cristiano Ronaldo, notably Rooney’s bicycle-kick stunner through the 2011 Manchester derby.

“I can’t believe it,” former United captain Gary Neville mentioned on the Sky Sports broadcast. “I don’t think I’ve ever been in a stadium where I’ve seen an overhead kick as good as that – and I was there on the day that Rooney scored his in the Manchester Derby.”

Ten Hag, nonetheless, was uncomfortable evaluating Garnacho so rapidly with two of the membership’s greatest names of latest years.

“Don’t compare,” mentioned the supervisor, who served a one-game suspension on Sunday and so was not on the touchline.

“I do not assume it is proper. They all have their very own identification, however for Garnacho to go that method, he has to work very arduous. And it’s a must to do it on a constant foundation. And to this point, he isn’t.

“But he has definitely high potential to do some amazing things. It is not the first time we saw this. But if you want to be a player like Rooney or Ronaldo, you have to score 20, 25 goals in the Premier League and that’s not easy to get. But potential, he has.”

The objective silenced the Goodison Park crowd apart from the travelling United supporters who loudly sang “Viva Garnacho”.

Even Everton supervisor Sean Dyche marvelled at what he referred to as a “lifetime goal”.