MANCHESTER, England — Erik ten Hag hailed a “excellent evening” after Manchester United beat Barnsley 7-0 within the Carabao Cup,

Marcus Rashford, Alejandro Garnacho and Christian Eriksen all scored twice whereas Antony discovered the web from the penalty spot as Ten Hag recorded the most important win of his reign.

It was additionally United’s largest margin of victory since beating southampton 9-0 in February 2021 underneath former boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

“Not for me however for the workforce that is the proper evening,” Ten Hag mentioned afterwards. “I feel we might do every part that we deliberate to do; how we win, subsequent spherical, scored some nice objectives, entertained the followers, we labored on our sport mannequin so we’re pleased.”

Ten Hag was capable of rotate his squad towards League One Barnsley, making eight adjustments from the workforce that beat Southampton 3–0 on Saturday.

Rashford was one among three gamers to maintain his place and adopted up his purpose on the weekend with one other two.

It was the primary time the England ahead has scored multiple in a sport since scoring twice in a 3-0 win over Leicester in February 2023.

“I do know from my first season right here that when he scores then, for the workforce, it is less difficult,” mentioned Ten Hag. “When you could have a participant in your squad who’s a assure for objectives then it will probably make the distinction. You are able to do loads of issues very effectively between the packing containers however soccer matches are determined within the field.”

United have bounced again from the 3-0 defeat to Liverpool by scoring 10 objectives with out conceding towards Southampton and Barnsley.

“I used to be not devastated after Liverpool and I’m not celebrating now,” mentioned Ten Hag. “It’s a endless course of. I do know the place I need to go, through which route. I do know we’ve got loads of velocity, dynamic and we’ve got seen this at present and we’ve got gamers able to dominating possession. We’ve got to work even tougher to get all of the phases of the sport proper.”