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Daily Mirror
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Samuel Meade

Marcus Rashford forces Erik ten Hag to change Man Utd plan with Wout Weghorst in new role

Wout Weghorst is a stop gap to what has been a great problem for Manchester United.

The Dutchman, who cut short his loan at Besiktas in January to spend the remainder of the season at Old Trafford, had been expected to almost exclusively operate as the focal point for United's attack - or at least that was the plan.

Erik ten Hag has used the 30-year-old as the central point in a three with the in-form Marcus Rashford playing on one wing and the likes of Jadon Sancho or Alejandro Garnacho rotating on the other side. But the plan clearly changed in Barcelona.

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