Antony’s £85.5m strike on debut, followed by a Marcus Rashford double – his first goals against the Gunners in over 6 years – sealed United’s fourth successive Prem triumph. 3 Marcus Rashford scored twice in the 3-1 win over ArsenalCredit: Richard Pelham / The Sun 3 Erik ten Hag is expecting big things at Old TraffordCredit: EPA And Ten Haag vowed that this is just the beginning. The Dutch coach said: “Antoni and Marcus played superbly, they were a constant threat. “Our attack is very strong – they are creative and they have speed. “This is the first time they have performed together and this performance is wonderful.” After two humiliating opening defeats to Brighton and Brentford, United fans are now dreaming of a title tilt. Ten Hag added: “I don’t think we’re there, but we’re heading in a good direction. We must continue. “We have to keep pushing, the attitude and the mentality, set high standards every day, we have to do better, there is a lot of room for improvement. “Everyone has to bring their best to Carrington. From day one we set high standards. FREE BET AND SIGN UP OFFERS – BEST NEW CUSTOMER OFFERS “We live by these high standards, when you show discipline, you create a culture of winning, that’s what we have to work for. “That is my demand, we have a lot of players in the squad who have won trophies and they have to carry that standard. “I understand that the fans dream, the standards of Manchester United must be good, we are at the beginning of a process, we are still far away. “We have to get better if you want to win trophies in the end.” United took the lead through new boy Antony on 35 minutes before Bukayo Saka equalized on the hour. But two optimistic counter-attacking goals from Rashford in the 66th and 75th minutes won the game. Afterwards, Ten Haag said he had not been worried by the threat from the championship leaders up front. He said: “Don’t worry, I know our defense can deal with that, but they have a lot of creativity. “We got a setback and we’re fighting back. I like that mentality. “Arsenal played well but we defended well – I never had the feeling we were going to be broken.” For Rashford it was his first goals against Arsenal since he scored twice against them in February 2016 on his Premier League debut in a 3-2 win. Rashford said: “It’s been a long time since I scored against Arsenal but I didn’t realize it had been so long before the game. “It’s a great feeling. You miss him as a player. I’m just hoping to stay fit, healthy and continue to perform like this.” The defeat ended Arsenal’s perfect start to the season after five wins to start the campaign. And manager Mikel Arteta clearly thought it should have been six. He said: “If we keep playing like this we will win football games. “We had an 8-10 minute period and it took us a while to get into the game and then it was mainly Arsenal, the way we dominated and the number of chances we created. “The team fought back and I said at half-time the game was there for the taking, if we played with courage we did, we could have scored two or three more – but you have to kill the game, we gave the ball away. a dangerous area and against them kills you. “We came in and they took advantage of it, it’s really disappointing because for these boys to play like they did here, it’s a big credit to them, but we need a better result. “We have to learn that you have to have so much discipline in these games, any detail is going to come through because they have world-class players all over the pitch.” 3 Erik ten Hag’s side have won four games in a rowCredit: AFP
