MANCHESTER, England — Erik ten Hag hailed a “excellent evening” after Manchester United beat Barnsley 7-0 within the Carabao Cup.
Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Christian Eriksen all scored twice whereas Antony discovered the web from the penalty spot as Ten Hag recorded the largest win of his reign.
It was additionally United’s largest margin of victory since beating Southampton 9-0 in February 2021 beneath former boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
“Not for me however for the staff that is the proper evening,” Ten Hag mentioned afterwards. “I feel we might do every thing that we deliberate to do; how we win, subsequent spherical, scored some nice objectives, entertained the followers, we labored on our sport mannequin so we’re glad.”
Ten Hag was in a position to rotate his squad in opposition to League One Barnsley, making eight modifications from the staff that beat Southampton 3-0 on Saturday.
Rashford was one in every of three gamers to maintain his place and adopted up his aim on the weekend with one other two.
It was the primary time the England ahead has scored a couple of in a sport since scoring twice in a 3-0 win over Leicester in February 2023.
“I do know from my first season right here that when he scores then, for the staff, it is simpler,” mentioned Ten Hag. “When you may have a participant in your squad who’s a assure for objectives then it could possibly make the distinction. You are able to do a whole lot of issues very effectively between the packing containers however soccer matches are determined within the field.”
United have bounced again from the 3-0 defeat to Liverpool by scoring 10 objectives with out conceding in opposition to Southampton and Barnsley.
“I used to be not devastated after Liverpool and I’m not celebrating now,” mentioned Ten Hag. “It’s a unending course of. I do know the place I wish to go, by which route. I do know now we have a whole lot of velocity, dynamic and now we have seen this immediately and now we have gamers able to dominating possession. Now we have to work even more durable to get all of the levels of the sport proper.”