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'I hope they keep going' - Ten Hag sees 'progress' in Hojlund-Rashford partnership

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Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag wants to see Rasmus Hojlund and Marcus Rashford kick on after both strikers scored in Sunday's 2-2 draw with Tottenham at Old Trafford.As Jim Ratcliffe attended his first game since agreeing a partial takeover of the club, United were twice pegged back by goals from Richarlison and Rodrigo Bentancur in a frustrating afternoon for Ten Hag, with Scott McTominay missing a glorious chance to win it late on.But there was encouragement in seeing summer signing Hojlund make it two goals in as many Premier League matches after a long wait to break his league duck, and then for Rashford to score only his fourth of the campaign."I hope they keep going, there is progress," Ten Hag said. "They are coming up with some routines and that is what you need, especially in the front line where a quick decision has to be made and in a split second you need the right decision so you need intuition."This was only the sixth game in 24 domestic fixtures in which at least one of United’s forwards has found the net."When your forwards are not scoring it is going through the whole team," he said. "It makes everyone insecure, starting with the front players when they are not scoring. (Alejandro) Garnacho, Hojlund, and Rashford must be a threat."Ten Hag claimed United should have had a penalty when Garnacho tumbled in the box but although Destiny Udogie had hold of the forward, there appeared to be little in the incident."Yes," Ten Hag said when asked if it should have been a spot-kick. "But what can you do?

But I am used to it, all season that is the case."(Away at) Spurs was similar, a clear handball from (Cristian) Romero and I can list more.

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