Rasmus Hojlund has a 'special talent', says Manchester United legend as stats show record form

Rasmus Hojlund's form has been the ideal Christmas gift for Manchester United fans.

Despite destroying the Champions League, we had to wait until Boxing Day to £73m summer signing to break his duck in the Premier League, and hasn't looked back since.

After five goals in six games in Europe, the 21-year-old's excellent work was undone. United fell in the group stage.

That focused attention on its lack of domestic production, which has now taken off.

Crying after scoring a late goal against Aston Villa to open his Premier League account on December 26, the Dane has kept things going impressively.

It's now five goals in five games from that match onwards, with the latest helping United overtake Villa again, this time at Old Trafford.

And he is the youngest player to achieve that feat.

He also racked up two assists in that period, while also scoring 11 goals in all competitions as he scored his first in the FA Cup.

However, despite initial doubts over whether he could pull it off, the United legend and compatriot Peter Schmeichel He wasn't surprised at all.

He told talkSPORT: “Just two and a half years ago I was in the Copenhagen team and they signed another striker and told him to go back to the Under 19s.

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“Sturm Graz came for him and told him 'we have to give you first-team football'. He accepted it and the first seven months there, nine months later in Atalanta and now he is in manchester united.

“It has been very, very fast for him, but at no time have I had any doubts that this boy is real, he has everything in his locker, he scores goals, his movement…

“I have seen this for a year since he broke into the Danish team. You know when you see something very, very special that doesn't come around very often? That's what I've seen in him.”

Former Premier League manager Alan Pardew also admitted he is now convinced, with the talkSPORT presenter saying: “Everyone in the game now knows this lad is the real deal.

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“In my opinion, it's still too early for him to really take on that role as Man United's number one, but he has his goals and hopefully he can move forward.”

One person who is also not surprised is his manager, Erik ten Hagwho paid the highest transfer fee of his career to bring the forward from Serie A.

“He is a great character, he always moves forward and always wants to improve,” explained the Dutchman.

“Now you see how the team is better and more stable now that we are serving the first line better, he started scoring and you see that something is growing with Rashy (Marcus Rashford), Bruno (Fernandes) and (Alejandro) Garnacho, also others . second and third line players.

“Now he is in a better position to score, but I can tell you that it is not easy for a striker when you have high expectations of yourself and also the outside world to meet them.

“When it doesn't work, he has the character that every striker needs, he gets angry, he gets angry when he doesn't score and that's why we selected him, he has resilience and calmness to perform under that stress, he doesn't have any moments when he wants to give up.” , keep going”.