Cristiano Ronaldo had another disappointing night for Man U.

After failing to find the back of the net for the latest time on Thursday night, Cristiano Ronaldo was advised by Wayne Rooney to remain patient if he wants to increase his playing time for Manchester United.

Since the Red Devils' 4-0 thumping at Brentford on August 13, the 37-year-old hasn't started a game in the Premier League. Erik ten Hag prefers to employ Marcus Rashford in that central spot instead of the veteran. Marcus Rashford has started the last three games for the Red Devils. Rashford has scored three goals and contributed one assist in his team's last five league matches, demonstrating that this strategy has been quite successful thus far.

Rashford was even given the Premier League Player of the Month title for September for a couple of good performances, and he scored another two goals in United's 3-2 victory over Omonia Nicosia in the Europa League. This led to Rashford receiving the honor. In the same game, Ronaldo had a fantastic opportunity to score his 700th career goal, but he wasted the opportunity by hitting the post from close range when it looked harder to miss than score.

Ten Hag has decided to give Ronaldo opportunities in Europe instead of starting him in United's match against Manchester City, where they lost 6-3. This comes after the five-time winner of the Ballon d'Or was benched for the match. Ten Hag chose to bring on five other players instead of Ronaldo, which was a new low for Ronaldo, but Rooney has encouraged Ronaldo to remain patient while playing for the Red Devils.

Rooney stated this in the press conference that he held for DC United. "The manager's obviously gone a different way in terms of how they're playing and been successful," Rooney said. Cristiano... both he and (Lionel) Messi are two of the greatest players who have ever participated in the sport, but in the end, time catches up with all of us.

It is clear that he is not the same player he was, for example, when he was 22 or 23 years old. It is a challenging situation for him.

Ronaldo missed many scoring chances in Cyprus.

"Knowing him, it's going to be quite challenging for him to take a seat on the bench... I have no doubt that if he waits patiently, he will eventually get his chance, and once again, it will be him who will be taking those chances and attempting to force his way back in."

Ten Hag was impressed with Ronaldo's overall performance and thinks it won't be long before Ronaldo scores his first goal from open play since April. Ronaldo did not find the back of the net in Cyprus; however, Ten Hag was impressed with Ronaldo's performance overall.

When Ten Hag was reminded of Ronaldo's inability to have children, he said, "I think they were on target as well." "The goalie made two excellent saves in the first two, so the player not only had a couple of chances, but he also created a couple of chances."

As a result of his contribution to the good run that led to Marcus Rashford's first goal, we can say that he had an effect on this match. I believe that we were able to generate a good number of scoring opportunities tonight; we counted 14 of them in just the first half, which indicates that there was a significant amount of danger posed to the opposition's goal.