He keeps surprising us - Ten Hag on Casemiro.

Casemiro scored a beautiful overhead kick goal, Brazilian style, on Saturday when Manchester United beat Bournemouth 1-0 at the Vitality Stadium.

The midfield kingpin, who formed part of a mean midfield partnership with Luka Modric and Toni Kroos at Real Madrid before his move to United, has continued to show how great a talent he is with his contribution at Old Trafford this season.

His has done some sterling work on and off the ball in his 44 appearances for Man United across all competitions, scoring four goals and contributing six assists.

That has left Man United boss, Erik Ten Hag, without any regrets for signing the 31-year-old, whom he says keeps surprising them with his excellent performances.

"He keeps surprising us," said Ten Hag in his post-match press conference as quoted by manutd.com.

"He’s such a brilliant football player, we know him as very good organisation, positioning, anticipating, intercepting a lot of balls, winning duels, a fighter, keeping the team together, but also in possession his passing, his distribution, but also finishing. Just a great football player. 

"We emphasise a lot and where we train on a lot, it’s about the movements when we are in the final third and movements of course has to come from the front line, second line just behind but also from the third line with fullbacks and with Casemiro coming from there.

“The movement is great, the touch from Christian Eriksen I think is great and the finish is brilliant."

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Ten Hag says Casemiro has exceeded the expectations they had when they signed him, in terms of what he brings to the club.

"Absolutely, by far,"

"One of the things that came out of our analysis, we missed a player in the midfield. A strategist and we searched for the strategist – it was not easy because they are not many in that profile who fits to the standard of Manchester United and so we are happy we found him."