In the Premier League, 141 players at the Premier League’s 20 clubs are more productive in front of the opponents’ goal than Højlund. Rio Ferdinand gets frustrated time and time again by seeing Hojlund make the wrong choice against the defenders. On Thursday against Real Sociedad, Hojlund’s 19th game in a row came without scoring. Is the Dane really that hopeless? a legendary United striker sees it from a different perspective.
Andy Cole has 121 goals in a United shirt and was part of the legendary striker duo alongside Dwight Yorke, who gave United a slew of titles in the latter half of the 90s and the early years of the 2000s.
“I was very lucky that during my time at Manchester United I had established players that I could learn from. These guys have been thrown straight into it. Two young boys who have to get started immediately without any established seniors to try to guide them. If I had come to United and was under the pressure they are in at the moment, I would have thought it was tough,” Cole told the Daily Mail.
