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Man Utd striker Rashford: Ten Hag understands players

England star Marcus Rashford has spoken about how he has grown as a player by being coached by so many different managers.

Rashford insisted that he has learned from each of his Manchester United head coaches over the years.

Rashford has played under Louis van Gaal, Jose Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Michael Carrick, Ralf Rangnick, and now Erik ten Hag.

He told United legend Gary Neville on The Overlap: “When Erik ten Hag came in, I didn't hear him speak about getting into the top four once, he just wanted to win trophies and he's got that mentality. It didn't matter what competition we were playing in, he wanted to try and win everything.

“We gave it everything and let ourselves down in the Europa League, and in the Premier League there was a period where we weren't defending as well and stopped scoring as many goals as we were – that's something he'll want to address.

“We'd always bounce back from disappointing results, there is no lower point than when you go to rival teams and concede four, five, six goals, you have to find the positives, and in the games after, we always had a good performance and won.

“Sometimes as players, you don't want to watch [poor matches], but his understanding of players is very high. I don't want to watch any bad games back – what's the point? There's nothing you can take from that, but the next game is important to clear your head because you can't let that blow.

“Especially after the Liverpool game [7-0 loss], we had Real Sociedad at home in the next game – we had a great performance and won 4-1. It's not easy to recover, but he would always give us confidence again and remind us that we wouldn't be here if we weren't good players."

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