A quick look at results would suggest Manchester United are building momentum but those who have watched their recent wins would suggest otherwise.
09.10.2023 - 05:25 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Scott McTominay is flavour of the month at Old Trafford - but it has not always been that way. Manchester United were open to selling the Academy graduate this summer, but they - and their manager Erik ten Hag - were indebted to the previously-unfancied midfielder when he scored two dramatic stoppage-time goals to gun down Brentford at Old Trafford on Saturday afternoon.
It sparked pandemonium in the stands, while Ten Hag gave McTominay credit in his post-match press conference. The game marked an astonishing U-turn in every sense of the phrase.
McTominay has heard it all before. Often made a scapegoat for collective failings at Old Trafford and beyond, the long-serving midfield partnership he conjured up with Fred - or McFred to give them their sometimes cruelly used nickname - had former heroes constantly ranting and rarely raving in the TV studios.
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Ironically, it was around the time United were hammered 4-0 by Brentford last season that Paul Scholes and his fellow midfield icon, Roy Keane, stuck the boot in on that modern pair. However, the former did offer a rather more glowing assessment when addressing transfer rumours around McTominay this summer.
McTominay's heroics in their Brentford win - this campaign - have added further weight to that turnaround. It will be interesting to see what Keane made of it all...
Assessing McTominay last term, Scholes said: "McTominay was always trying to run with the ball, ridiculous, the quality in the middle of the pitch was poor. The quality in the middle of the pitch was nowhere near good enough, but we've seen that for the last few years with
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