Solskjaer tips Greenwood to replace Lukaku

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has backed Mason Greenwood to fill the void left by Romelu Lukaku at Old Trafford.

The Belgian completed a £74million move to Inter Milan on Thursday to end his two-year stint at the Theatre of Dreams.

Lukaku bagged 28 goals in his first season in the north-west and was the club’s second top scorer last term with 15 goals, despite suffering an indifferent campaign.

United failed to sign a replacement for Lukaku following his move to Italy and fans are understandably worried about replacing the Belgian’s goals.

However, Solskjaer believes Greenwood can make the step up following his promotion into the first team squad.

‘Of course Rom [Lukaku] has a good record and stats he’s one of the top number nines around when you wanna play with that kind of striker, target man,’ admitted Solskjaer.

‘For me I’m very confident that we’ll get goals from Martial, Rashford, James will create, I’m sure Jesse Lingard will get more. We have a different attacking set-up this month.

 ‘Towards the end of last season we didn’t score a lot of goals and you do think players will have an impact and Mason Greenwood pathway would have been a lot more different if we had another forward there and I believe Mason is going to be playing and involved a lot and when he is he’s going to score goals.’

Greenwood is likely to start on the bench for Sunday’s opener against Chelsea at Old Trafford. Paul Pogba has been passed fit after missing last Saturday’s friendly against AC Milan, while Harry Maguire is fit to make his debut for the club following his £80m arrival.

FROM metro.co.uk/