Erik ten Hag believes Cristiano Ronaldo can construct on his 700th membership objective: More objectives will come

Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag believes Cristiano Ronaldo might construct on his 700th membership objective, which he achieved in United’s 2-1 win over Everton on Sunday.

New Delhi ,UPDATED: Oct 10, 2022 10:42 IST

Cristiano Ronaldo netted his 700th membership objective in Manchester’s win on Sunday. (AP Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag stated that veteran ahead Cristiano Ronaldo might construct on his 700th membership objective in the course of the group’s victory over Everton on Sunday.

Ronaldo got here off the bench at hand Manchester United a 2-1 win over Everton in a Premier League match at Goodison Park. The Portuguese entered after Anthony Martial picked up a again harm and took solely 14 minutes to web his first Premier League objective of the season. Along the way in which, he took his objective tally for United to 144 throughout two spells.

“That is really impressive when you score 700 goals, it is a huge performance,” Erik ten Hag stated. “I am really happy for him, and congratulations to him. He had to wait for it but I am sure more goals will come.

“Every participant wants the objectives. I’ve labored with goalscorers, they want objectives each season to have that feeling. Once they’ve some objectives, they’ve the circulate. Games go simpler. That will occur with him as properly.”

Manchester United found themselves behind early on after Alex Iwobi handed an early lead to Everton just five minutes into the match. United soon levelled things as Antony slotted home. Marcus Rashford then thought he had added a late goal for United but his effort was ruled out after a VAR review for handball against him.

With the fifth victory in six league matches, United have moved to fifth in the table. Ten Hag expressed his delight after his team suffered a 3-6 drubbling by Manchester City last week.

“Criticism is regular after a defeat in a giant sport, a derby, however you need to take care of that and study the teachings and that’s what we did,” he said.

“We responded properly on Thursday (within the Europa League) and in the present day. We handled a setback when 1-0 down and we caught to the plan, remained composed and did our work. We must hold the method going.”

Everton manager Frank Lampard also heaped praise on Ronaldo, saying: “He is without doubt one of the biggest gamers to have graced the sport. To look as bodily good as he does now and hold scoring objectives, making the irregular numbers turn out to be regular, is unbelievable.”