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Under-fire Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag is hoping his side turned a corner in coming from behind to beat Brentford 2-1 Saturday and snap a five-game winless run.
The Red Devils had failed to score in the Premier League for over 300 minutes before Alejandro Garnacho blasted in to cancel out Ethan Pinnock’s first-half header.
Rasmus Hojlund then completed the comeback with a deft finish to lift United up to 10th in the Premier League table.
Ten Hag’s men had scored just five goals in their opening seven league games of the season, three of which came at bottom-of-the-table Southampton.
“We don’t score enough, we are not clinical enough, but we scored two great goals,” said Ten Hag.
“The two goals we scored were high quality and we have seen this team has the capacity to score very good goals. When you score you add some belief, some confidence.
“We created enough chances (in previous games) and didn’t score enough and then you don’t win games and everyone is negative. It is only one win, we have to build on this.”
Ten Hag Friday defiantly slammed speculation he is on the brink of losing his job as “fairy tales and lies.”
The Dutchman has been under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks after United won just three of their first 10 games of the campaign in all competitions.
However, United’s desperate need for a result did not show in a subdued first half that only sprung into life in added time.
Garnacho was the one bright spark of the United attack as the Argentinian twice forced Mark Flekken into saves and also blasted into the side-netting.
But the biggest chance of a flat first 45 minutes for the home side fell to Christian Eriksen, who somehow blasted over against his former club with just Flekken to beat.
United were furious at the circumstances surrounding the opener five minutes into added time at the end of the first half.