Brentford must be wary of winger Alejandro Garnacho, says Manchester Evening News’ senior football writer Tyrone Marshall.

Garnacho has been moved to the right flank by manager Erik ten Hag, which has allowed Marcus Rashford to play in his favoured left-sided role, and has eight goal contributions in 26 Premier League appearances this season.

Manchester United are sixth going into the final 10 games that follow the March international break, nine points off the top four. What have you made of what you’ve seen since the turn of the year?

The situation is much improved. It does not feel like the performances have changed that much between autumn, when things were really difficult, and now. The biggest difference now is that they are scoring more goals after struggling to do that earlier in the season. Now they are scoring goals and that is why they are winning games.

They have won eight in 10, but there were a couple of 4-3 scorelines in there, a 4-2 and a 2-2, so they are still conceding a lot of goals and a lot of chances.

Rasmus Højlund has been a big part of the reason they have found a way to start scoring more, with other players stepping up as well – Marcus Rashford has found a lot more form and Alejandro Garnacho has scored more goals. This has got them back into the fringes of the top-four race, but I still watch United every week and fear for them at times because of the sheer number of chances they give up.

United are still just about in with a chance of a top-four finish, as well as being in the FA Cup semi-final for the second season in a row. What would a successful season look like from here?

They have got to reach the FA Cup final, with the draw pitting them against Coventry in the semis.

It is still uncertain about what is needed for Champions League qualification this season, but it looks like fifth would do the job. If they got fifth, you would take that now given where they have been for most of the season.

If they were to end the season having won the FA Cup and qualified for the Champions League, you would definitely say that is a successful season. The risk is that, if they reach the cup final again, play Man City again and lose again, to lose a Manchester derby at Wembley two years in a row is going to hurt an awful lot.

The minimum expectation from here has to be to get back in the Champions League and if that is via fifth place, through the back door, then so be it.

Sir Jim Ratcliffe is now involved at the club and plans for the future are constantly being discussed. How much excitement is there about this new era?

Quite a lot, I would say. There has been a total lack of excitement over the last 18 years under the Glazers and fans were desperate for a change. They wanted the Glazers gone entirely, but though Sir Jim Ratcliffe only owns a quarter of the club, it is pretty clear he runs the club and is certainly running the football side of it.

The fact there has been so much change has been the source of most of the excitement. There is a new chief executive in Omar Berrada, who is a football-focused chief executive, which is not something the Glazers ever did and the same can be said for Dan Ashworth as sporting director. Ratcliffe has spoken with a lot of ambition, not just about the playing side of things, but about the stadium as well. It is the kind of ambition you felt the Glazers never really had.

With Ratcliffe it is clearly very different and there is a lot of excitement that things might be changing and there is going to be a focus on being a successful football club again, rather than a football club that just makes a lot of money.

Which player should Brentford fans keep an eye on?

It has got to be an attacker, with the way things are going, so I would say both Garnacho and Højlund. The latter had scored eight in eight before the last game, and the former has been sensational. The teenager has started every game since 1 November and, after being in and out and on the fringes before, he has just come in and made that position his own.

Garnacho is playing on the right now, having moved over from the left, and arguably looks even better there. He is a constant threat; his dribbling is brilliant and he is a really dangerous winger. Even though he is only 19, he probably holds the key to United’s attack already.

How is Erik ten Hag likely to set up his side at Gtech Community Stadium?

Lisandro Martínez might be back, so there could be a change defensively, but I do not know if he will start, given he has been out for eight weeks. He was with Argentina during the international break, but I think that was more for training and to see his mates over there, really. Brentford might be too soon for him to start, but it will likely be a pretty similar team to the one they played against Liverpool.

Højlund is back now, so I think he is going to start. United are still lacking a left-back, so that is not going to change and Aaron Wan-Bissaka or Diogo Dalot might play there.

We all know what happened in this fixture last season… what’s your score prediction this time around?

I would expect goals as United are in good form and Brentford are not, I think it is fair to say.

I just find United hard to predict this season and of late. I look at every game thinking they are not going to keep a clean sheet, but they are starting to score goals, so I think they will edge this 2-1, but I can see Brentford having their chances.

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