{"id":135217,"date":"2023-12-28T09:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/rasmus-hojlund-happiest-man-alive-after-opening-premier-league-account-in-aston-villa-win\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T09:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T09:57:41","slug":"rasmus-hojlund-happiest-man-alive-after-opening-premier-league-account-in-aston-villa-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/rasmus-hojlund-happiest-man-alive-after-opening-premier-league-account-in-aston-villa-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasmus Hojlund \u2018happiest man alive\u2019 after opening Premier League account in Aston Villa win \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund admitted he feels like the \u201chappiest man alive\u201d after netting his first Premier League goal in Tuesday\u2019s 3-2 win over Aston Villa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A \u00a372m signing from Atalanta during the summer, Hojlund was prolific in the Champions League but could not carry that form over to domestic action and went on a run of 1,026 minutes without a Premier League goal before his\u00a0heroics at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>Hojlund\u2019s celebrations were incredibly emotional and the 20-year-old confessed he was feeling on top of the world after finally ending his drought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a while but I\u2019m happy,\u201d Hojlund told\u00a0<em>Amazon Prime<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m the happiest man alive right now. You can see the celebrations as well. We believed until the end and showed a lot of character as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve scored a couple in the Champions League but it\u2019s been a while in the Premier League. Today we showed a lot of character. Happy to get the first one and hopefully I can build on that.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/01hjn96hsencr0t7t8ry.jpg\" alt=\"Alejandro Garnacho\" title=\"Alejandro Garnacho\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Garnacho was also on target \/ Visionhaus\/GettyImages<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>United have struggled in front of goal this season \u2013 14% of their goals scored this campaign came on Tuesday \u2013 but Hojlund\u2019s strike and a double from Alejandro Garnacho helped seal an enormous victory at the start of the Sir Jim Ratcliffe era.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo many people talk about the strikers in\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0and say we never score goals,\u201d Garnacho added. \u201cBut today you see [Marcus] Rashford with the assist, Rasmus with the goal, so we\u2019re happy. One of the best days of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only three teams in the division have scored fewer than United\u2019s 21 goals this season, while the Red Devils are level with newly-promoted Luton Town.<\/p>\n<p>The next chance to add to their tally will come on Saturday with a trip to Nottingham Forest, who picked up a dramatic 3-1 win over Newcastle United on Boxing Day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8o6bJOSHpPQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"International Break - Top 5 Games to watch || #sportsgist #shorts #football #fifa #worldcup\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8o6bJOSHpPQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund admitted he feels like the \u201chappiest man alive\u201d after netting his first Premier League goal in Tuesday\u2019s 3-2 win over Aston Villa. A \u00a372m signing from Atalanta during the summer, Hojlund was prolific in the Champions League but could not carry that form over to domestic action and went on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Rasmus Hojlund \u2018happiest man alive\u2019 after opening Premier League account in Aston Villa win \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/rasmus-hojlund-happiest-man-alive-after-opening-premier-league-account-in-aston-villa-win\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rasmus Hojlund \u2018happiest man alive\u2019 after opening Premier League account in Aston Villa win \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Manchester United striker Rasmus Hojlund admitted he feels like the \u201chappiest man alive\u201d after netting his first Premier League goal in Tuesday\u2019s 3-2 win over Aston Villa. 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