Erik ten Hag praises Aaron Wan-Bissaka for two impressive displays

Erik ten Hag praises Aaron Wan-Bissaka for two impressive displays on his return to the Man United side after he played just FOUR MINUTES of football before the World Cup… as Diogo Dalot faces a fight to regain the right-back spot

  • Diogo Dalot suffered a hamstring injury while playing for Portugal at World Cup
  • That has allowed Aaron Wan-Bissaka another chance to impress at Man United
  • £50m right-back performed well in wins over Burnley and Nottingham Forest 
  • United manager Erik ten Hag was happy with Wan-Bissaka’s performances
  • Reds head to Wolves on New Year’s Eve for their final fixture of 2022 

Erik ten Hag has praised Aaron Wan-Bissaka for battling to revive his Manchester United career after a disrupted start to the season.

Wan-Bissaka only played four minutes in the first four months of the campaign due to a combination of illness and injury. 

It gave Diogo Dalot the chance to cement his position as Ten Hag’s first-choice right-back after impressing the new manager on the club’s pre-season tour of Bangkok and Australia.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka has impressed on his return to the Manchester United team this week

United manager Erik ten Hag has been impressed by Wan-Bissaka as he seeks competition

But Dalot picked up a hamstring injury playing for Portugal at the World Cup, and Wan-Bissaka has done well in United’s first two games after the restart against Burnley in the Carabao Cup and Nottingham Forest in the Premier League.

United have scored five goals without reply with Wan-Bissaka setting up a goal for Christian Eriksen against Burnley and playing particularly well against Forest on Tuesday night in an unfamiliar defence that featured Luke Shaw at centre-back for the first time.

The 25-year-old’s future at Old Trafford was in some doubt last summer amid suggestions the club would listen to offers for him, and there is ongoing speculation that he could return to Crystal Palace three-and-a-half years after leaving Selhurst Park for United in a £50million move.

Wan-Bissaka at full stretch as he crosses for Christian Eriksen to score in the win over Burnley

The right-back celebrates with Eriksen after United opened the scoring in their 2-0 victory

But with Ten Hag working to a tight budget in January and prioritising a new striker, he is unlikely to look at new right-backs until next summer.

The United boss praised Wan-Bissaka for his return to form and fitness, saying: ‘First you have to be on the pitch, and in the first half of the season he was either injured or ill so he didn’t have a role in the squad.

Diogo Dalot was United’s first choice right-back but suffered an injury at the World Cup

‘So I think the break was good for him. He returned, he was in the training camp in Spain and could play some games in preparation of the restart, and now he’s playing two games and he’s doing really well so I’m happy with his performance.

‘We need competition in the squad. He has to play games in the team and then he can develop, then he can grow.’




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