Manchester United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hails January signings Bruno Fernandes and Odion Ighalo

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer praised January signings Bruno Fernandes and Odion Ighalo following Manchester United eased through to the last sixteen of the Europa League.

United dismissed Belgian opponents Club Brugge 5- at Aged Trafford to earn 6-one on mixture.

Fernandes pulled the strings in the initially 50 %, scoring the opening goal from the penalty place following a impressive handball from defender Simon Deli, who was sent off.

The Portuguese then played a very important part in the second for Ighalo in advance of Scott McTominay, generating a welcome return to the starting up line-up following personal injury, grabbed a third in advance of 50 %-time.

Two late goals from Fred emphasised United’s superiority, and Solskjaer was understandably buoyant as he reflected on the functionality.

The Norwegian said: ‘I’m pretty happy tonight. Certainly we are in a moment now that we rotate a little bit, players are acquiring games, but, when you score goals and perform like this, you’re heading to get far more self-assurance.

‘It was excellent to see the start out of the activity, I imagined they had the suitable intent, produced masses of possibilities, and, when they go down to 10 guys, of training course the activity was far more or a lot less more than.’

Fernandes has had a massive effect considering that his go from Sporting Lisbon, even though Ighalo was provided a initially start out considering that his shock financial loan signing from Shanghai Shenhua and responded with a strong screen.

‘Bruno coming in definitely helps make a huge, huge variation,’ said Solskjaer. ‘You can see he is acquired a hand in all the a few initially goals. What a move, what a goal Odion’s goal was.

‘I’m pretty happy with the contribution of Odion as nicely up entrance, performing what he does. He’s a goal male, we can perform up to him, he’ll maintain it, he is acquired Juan (Mata) and Bruno next to him and you’ve got acquired runners then.

‘I believe as a fellow striker I know how significant that initially goal is. He’s been near a couple of situations, you can see he sniffs goals. He wants to be there the place it sometimes hurts. That goal, he is sharp in his head. Which is a purely natural striker.’

Two goals for Fred was an additional huge good for United, with the Brazilian finding the web for United for the initially time considering that September 2018.

‘I was not certain if I was heading to be alive the next time he was heading to score a goal because he is had so many makes an attempt,’ said Solskjaer with a smile.

‘But one with his suitable, one with his remaining. It’s been an ongoing joke involving us of training course, but he acquired that goal and I’m pretty pleased for him.’

The only lousy news for United was a thigh personal injury for Anthony Martial that ruled him out of the squad.

Solskjaer is waiting to locate out whether or not the forward could be available from Everton on Sunday, saying: ‘He went off instruction yesterday, just had treatment method. He tried out right now, he reported, had a physical fitness exam this morning.’

Brugge boss Philippe Clement felt his crew have been really hard done by with refereeing choices more than the two games, citing a probable penalty for an early problem by Harry Maguire on David Okereke.

On Deli’s moment of madness, Clement said: ‘It was a reaction, it was not intended. He apologised in the direction of the crew. It’s completed also for us because he did a pretty excellent time presently.

‘We know Manchester is a superior crew. I said in advance of the two games that we must perform above our top and that the situations have to go our way. For certain the situations didn’t go our way.’