See what Thierry Henry has to say about Jadon Sancho’s performance

Jadon Sancho was brilliant as Borussia Dortmund beat PSG 1-0 in their Champions League semi-final first leg clash.

Sancho looked ten times the player we saw at Old Trafford, as he just looked a different player.

Arsenal legend Thierry Henry was amazed at what he saw from Sancho, and hailed him for overcoming the mental battle in his mind.

“We all know that he struggled mentally at Manchester United. The power of the brain and how you can be as a professional… when you’re not well here [in the mind], or at home, or whatever it is, you cannot perform. I don’t care where you are or who you are or the talent that you have,” Henry said on CBS Sports.

“You can see that things are a bit better up there, whatever the struggle was with him, because to do what he did tonight… I think at Manchester United he played 48 games and only dribbled past a player seven times. He did that in the first ten minutes tonight.

“All I can say is: don’t underestimate that. Mental health is not an easy thing to deal with and you can see that when someone is well up there then they can perform, so well done, big man.”

Thierry Henry believes Sancho made the right decision to complete a temporary move back to Dortmund midway through the campaign, as his game has further improved.

“You need to feel the love, you need to feel that you’re important and you can’t lose your football just like that,” Henry added.

“We all know that it happened to me, sometimes when you’re not well you cannot perform on the field, whatever situation you have outside.

“More often than not we are very critical on guys that don’t perform because you are at a big club and you don’t perform, but you tend to forget about what’s happening outside the field.

“If that’s not right then you’re not going to perform well and that’s why I think it was an amazing choice for him to go on loan back to Dortmund where he knows maybe that the light wasn’t going to be too much on him at the very beginning.

“He needed to go back into a certain performance, going back to playing games, having minutes in his games and you can see what it does.

“When you have minutes, the balance is right in your head, everything is okay outside of the field, you’re okay mentally, then you can perform. What he did today… wow!”