Jesse Lingard didn’t feature in the last game at Old Trafford against Brentford and Rangnick has cleared the air on why he ignored the academy product.
Manchester United interim manager Ralf Rangnick has given his reasons why he ignored academy graduate Jesse Lingard in their last match at Old Trafford.
The Red Devils got a comfortable win against Brentford as Bruno Fernandes, Cristiano Ronaldo and Raphael Varane all finding the back of the net.
Rangnick brought in Phil Jones, Edinson Cavani and Fred all came in in the second half of the game with Jesse Lingard not featuring in the last match at Old Trafford this season.
Speaking on why he didn’t ignored Lingard Rangnick said: “To start with, I think in the last couple of weeks under my tenure, he has played far more games than he used to before I came,” Ralf replied.
“Number two, on gameday against Chelsea, he contacted me in the hotel and asked me to release him from the game and release him from the training session the following day or two days after the Chelsea game for some personal, family reasons and I also allowed him to do that.
“This was also the reason that, with only three subs – unfortunately, in all the other leagues you have five subs – I had to take a decision between bringing on Edinson Cavani, Jesse Lingard or the young Alejandro Garnacho who I would have loved to bring on and give a chance, having been 3-0 up.
“I took the decision to bring on Edinson for the very reasons I explained to you.
“Had I not brought on Edinson Cavani, maybe someone else would have posted [on social media] it was ‘classless’ not to bring on Edinson Cavani or maybe someone else would have posted why didn’t the manager bring on the young Alejandro Garnacho?
“With only three subs and two already done, or the first one had already been done, you have to take a decision.
“This will not be to the liking of everybody, it’s also part of the game.”
