{"id":6197,"date":"2025-02-05T08:39:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:44:08","slug":"peter-schmeichel-reveals-who-deserves-blame-for-fantastic-man-utd-stars-woeful-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/05\/peter-schmeichel-reveals-who-deserves-blame-for-fantastic-man-utd-stars-woeful-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Schmeichel reveals who deserves blame for \u2018fantastic\u2019 Man Utd star\u2019s woeful form"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Schmeichel believes he still has a huge future at United (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Manchester United<\/a> legend Peter Schmeichel<\/a> has leapt to the defence of Rasmus Hojlund<\/a> and insisted Ruben Amorim<\/a> is not playing to the striker\u2019s strengths.<\/p>\n

Hojlund is on a run of 13 games without a goal, last hitting the back of the net in the Europa League win over Viktoria Plzen in December.<\/p>\n

Both he and fellow striker Joshua Zirkzee have failed to score in 2025 with Amorim making the decision to bench both players in Sunday\u2019s defeat to Crystal Palace<\/a>, instead playing Kobbie Mainoo in a false nine role.<\/a><\/p>\n

The experiment was a damning indictment of the situation at Old Trafford, with Hojlund and Zirkzee, who combined cost over \u00a3100million, the manager\u2019s only options up for the remainder of the season.<\/p>\n

Former United captain Gary Neville has suggested Amorim \u2018may not like\u2019 Hojlund leading his attack<\/a> with United likely to focus on signing a new centre forward this summer with Sporting\u2019s Viktor Gyokeres among their targets.<\/p>\n

But Schmeichel has backed the \u2018fantastic\u2019 Denmark international to be key to any success United have going forward.<\/p>\n

\u2018Manchester United don’t play the way you should play when you have a guy like Hojlund,\u2019 the former goalkeeper told Tipsbladet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hojlund has not scored in 13 games (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018It’s been difficult for him, and I think he’s doing fantastically.<\/p>\n

\u2018He never gives up, he fights, and he doesn’t let it get to him. For me, there’s no doubt that he’s the future, and for me, there’s no doubt that he’s part of the forward-looking project.<\/p>\n

\u2018What has happened this year, he will learn a lot from. This also applies to many other players at Manchester United \u2013 that it is a learning period.’<\/p>\n

Hojlund, a \u00a372million signing from Atalanta, scored a very respectable 16 goals in his first season in English football, 10 of those coming in 25 Premier League starts.<\/p>\n

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Hojlund was dropped from the starting XI on Saturday (Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 22-year-old has scored just twice in the league this term, however with the vast majority of his goal contributions coming in the Europa League.<\/p>\n

While Schmeichel is convinced Hojlund will still have a major role to play at United, Premier League legend Alan Shearer has suggested the Dane may now be considering his future<\/a> after being dropped at the weekend.<\/p>\n

\u2018Ruben Amorim opted for Mainoo in the false nine position against Crystal Palace at the weekend and I imagine Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee will be feeling very flat,\u2019 Shearer told Betfair.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018They\u2019ll be thinking whether they actually belong or want to be at the football club when you\u2019ve got the new manager playing a midfielder as a false nine ahead of centre-forwards.<\/p>\n

\u2018Hojlund and Zirkzee will be feeling very flat and there\u2019ll be a lot of thoughts going through their minds about whether they want to be there and whether Amorim actually rates them or wants them. Clearly, he doesn\u2019t because he needs results, which he isn\u2019t getting, and he\u2019s not playing either forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Schmeichel believes he still has a huge future at United (Picture: Getty) Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel has leapt to the defence of Rasmus Hojlund and insisted Ruben Amorim is not playing to the striker\u2019s strengths. Hojlund is on a run of 13 games without a goal, last hitting the back of the net in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6202,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions\/6202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preforeclosurefortunes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}