Having joined Manchester United from Arsenal’s academy, Ayden Heaven has enjoyed a positive start to his career at Old Trafford.
The 18-year-old defender played his first 90 minutes for the club in United’s 4-1 win over Real Sociedad in the Europa League on Thursday night and didn’t look at all out of place.
Speaking the press ahead of the Leicester game, manager Ruben Amorim sung the praises of the teenage defender.
If he continues like that he is going to play. Of course he is young and he didn’t play much this season, maybe only 45 minutes for the Under-21s, then a few minutes here and now a full game. I really like his confidence. I like his pace, I think he is good in defending the box and I think he is quite complete. But he has a lot of work to do in the Premier League. We will face a different kind of player and he will be tested in a different kind of way, so we are trying to manage all of this because he is still really young.
Amorim also discussed his team selection for other positions with players returning from injury.
With the different competitions, we have to rotate. We are risking some players. For example, Casemiro, he was so tired. We didn’t want to risk Ugarte because today [it] was a decision. In one competition, Ugarte wanted to stay here. We have Mason Mount who will return really slow, Kobbie will maybe return in a few weeks, I do not know for sure. Harry Maguire, who we tried not to risk, we will see for Sunday. We need all the players and I think against Lyon it will be a different kind of game. The physicality is going to be a different game, more demanding in that aspect and we have a lot of difficult games in the Premier League.
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