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Publication date: Sunday, September 13, 2020 7:41 AM
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says he could see the “exciting prospect” that young defender Teden Mengi is after his performance against Aston Villa.
United lost 1-0 to Dean Smith in their last preseason friendly on Saturday. In fact, the Red Devils don’t start their Premier League campaign until next weekend.
Dean henderson, who is willing to fight for his place between the sticks, started in goal. Diogo Dalot, linked to the start, was part of the back four, with Donny van de Beek playing in midfield.
And despite Villa’s new signing, Ollie Watkins, scoring the winner’s goal, Solskjaer insisted that Mengi’s second-half performance was among several positives.
“The result was not the main thing,” Solskjaer said. MUTV. However, there are also some positives – some good positives, some individual positives.
“I thought Deano showed his authority back there and plays like a Man United goalkeeper, especially in the second half, [and] you see Teden when he’s faced with the exciting prospect he is.
Solskjaer He also included teens Ethan Galbraith and Anthony Elanga on his team.
The coach added: “Young Ethan Galbraith has been with us in summer training in the Europa League and he has minutes today.
“And you can see it has less time. I spoke to him afterwards. A couple of times he gets caught with the ball, but that’s the learning he needs and that will make the next time he’s on the field he’s ready for that. “
‘VALUABLE MINUTES’ THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT
Solskjaer insisted that his United The team got the full value of playing time in a preseason shortened by last season’s forced layoff.
“In the first half I thought we played good things and created chances,” he said. “The most important thing is the valuable minutes because this preseason is very strange and different for us.
“We’ve had two weeks back and it’s only a week before we start the league. Of course, the Europa League will help us in that regard because the players who have played in that during the summer don’t really need that much, and some of the international matches.
“But you could clearly see that some of them need minutes.”
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