Hannibal Mejbri has received praised for his fighting spirit in United’s defeat to Liverpool at Anfield.
Manchester United legend Gary Neville praised academy player Hannibal Mejbri for the character shown when he came in against Liverpool at Anfield.
The Tunisia international replace Anthony Elanga in his team 4-0 defeat against the Reds as he showed more energy and attitude.
Though the academy player received an early yellow card for a tackle but instead received praised by United legend.
Manchester United interim manager claims it was disappointing introducing the boy in the defeat.
“Normally it’s better to give a player like him a debut when you’re 3-0 up but we haven’t been 3-0 up so often this season”, Rangnick said.
“That’s why I decided to play him for the last 10 minutes. He was a little maybe overly motivated in those two moments but I think the referee had the right feeling not to send him off.”
Club stalwart Antonio Valencia led the accolades, saying: “Today I’m feel(ing) proud of this boy.”
Another fan account said: “19 year old Hannibal Mejbri showed more fight, bottle, energy and attitude in 10 minutes than the rest of this team has all season.”
More added similar thoughts: “Hannibal Mejbri, 19 years old. Comes on in the 84th minute and gets stuck in while the ‘senior players’ walked about for 90 minutes. MOTM for me.”
Another said: “United’s MOTM Hannibal Mejbri. The kid showed more fight in 5 minutes than the rest of them put together in 93 minutes.”
A fourth tweeted: “Sad indication of how poor we are is Hannibal Mejbri was our man of the match and he only played for about 8 minutes. #LIVMUN,’ with one simply saying: “Man Utd’s best player tonight: Hannibal Mejbri,”.
