Rasmus Hojlund in bust-up with Amad Diallo over failure to pass to each other

Rasmus Hojlund was involved in a bust-up with Manchester United team-mate Amad Diallo after rescuing his team with two goals in the win over Viktoria Plzen.

Hojlund and Diallo confronted each other on the pitch after the final whistle of the 2-1 Europa League victory, each upset with the other for not passing to them during the match.

Ruben Amorim, the United head coach, said it is healthy that his players are “fighting” as they care about getting the club back on track – and he will only step in should they overstep the mark.

Lisandro Martinez acted as peacemaker when it looked like it could boil over after the victory, just the second time they have won away this season.

“For me it is perfect,” said Amorim. “We need to feel something at this moment. If we need to fight each other it is like a family. When you don’t care, you don’t do anything with your brother, mother, father.

“It’s a normal thing, a positive healthy thing and I will leave the players and captain to calm it down and if I see too much I will go in [the] dressing room, but I’m happy we win the game and fight with each other.”

Hojlund insists he is making progress under Amorim, adding: “We still need more time. It’s still very early days. It’s about getting our routines together and it is getting there. I know it sounds odd, but we don’t get enough time on the training ground, so we have to train it during the matches. But it’s getting better and better.”

On the match, he added: “It was a bit difficult out there. It was very cold today and the pitch was a bit boggy as well, but we solved it in the second half.

“I think we didn’t play too direct in the first half. We needed to play over them and behind them more because there was space to run into. Especially with the boggy pitch I was talking about, if we won the second balls, you can play from there.”