The former Ajax star has begun his Premier League career on a strong note.
Erik ten Hag has urged Antony to keep improving despite his solid start at Manchester United.
The Brazilian star has established himself as a key player since joining the Red Devils this summer. He became the first Man Utd star ever to have scored in his first three games for the club.
Antony also opened the scoring for Ten Hag’s side in their crucial win over Everton this weekend. But the Dutchman believes he still has a lot of room for improvement.
“We have to expect more from him,” Ten Hag told reporters. “He needs challenges, that’s why he came to the Premier League and he gets that here. He wants to play with the best players and the highest stress factors and against the best players.
“From there on he will step up and that’s what you see. [In the] First week he was scoring goals and he has done good stuff but I also see a lot of room for improvement in his game.
“What I was happy with is the goal [against Everton] was out of a moment of getting in behind – he has to do that more and use his pace.
“He is a good dribbler but he also has to make more variations and in the first game he was not always that good defending wise. But this time he was really good, he was really disciplined and had good positioning, good anticipation and good pressing and he had quite an impact on this team performance.
“He can go both ways with both feet. He has to work on that point. We already did that in Amsterdam with him, working on that. He can cross with his right foot too but he’s a young player who we have to develop and he has to develop himself too.”
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