Erik ten Hag issues demand to Manchester United defenders and midfielders

Erik ten Hag insists Manchester United need to share the goals around in their squad after two profligate performances against Omonia Nicosia.

United had 65 attempts at the Cypriot side's goal across two games but only scored four times, with their winner at Old Trafford on Thursday night coming from substitute Scott McTominay in the 93rd minute.

Midfielder McTominay struck his first goal of the campaign and also became the first non-forward in the United squad to get on the scoresheet this term.

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Marcus Rashford is United's top scorer with five goals but missed a hatful of chances against Omonia. The 24-year-old unleashed 10 attempts at Francis Uzoho's goal, having scored twice in Nicosia last week.

Antony became the first United player to score in their first three Premier League appearances and Anthony Martial has tallied three goals despite only making one start, but Cristiano Ronaldo only has two and Bruno Fernandes one. United have scored fewer league goals than Brighton, Brentford, Fulham and Sunday's opponents, Newcastle.

"Yes, I'm confident, mostly," Ten Hag said when asked if United had 20-goal-a-season forwards. "In my teams, there are players who will score. They come into the position and in the last part, it's also about the freedom from the player, the intuition, the space they have to take.

"When they have that feeling then you will see that when they have the talent, when they have the potential, they will score that number of goals.

"I think we have in our squad players who can score that number of goals, but you can also divide it because we have many goalscorers across the offensive department. But I think we also need something from midfield and the