I see where your coming from, but he's still young and raw. The potential is there for him to be a very good player. Look at Sterling now, compared to where he was when he was Rashford's age. Yeah, Rashford should have scored the first chance, but Martial should have scored that one on one last week. They are both young players, and young players are inconsistent. Martial went 9 months without a goal, they have both struggled at times. Rashford is 21 years old, think of everything he has done for us already.. The double against Arsenal on his debut, the winner at City, the freekick at Celta Vigo, the double against Liverpool. He's achieved so much already & he's still a kid. Martial is the better footballer, but calling Rashford an "average player" is ridiculous.
Agree that he’s not average, that’s a tad too far, but you can’t cherry pick your points. First of all, Sterling was a much superior talent to Rashford, he started producing the goods at 17 (I think) and at 18/19 was clearly a much better player overall than Rashford. That’s an objective assessment.
Difference between Martial’s missed one on one last week was that he’d already scored and put in a MoM performance, when he got that chance in the 89’ minute or something like that. If you’ve played you know tired legs and tired minds can make you lose that extra concentration and coolness needed to bury those at the very end of games. Martial went 9 months without scoring, true, how much did he play? Rashford has played plenty without producing the goods, in Martial’s exact position.
Rashford is clearly talented, but as of now it’s all skill without proper application. He doesn’t have the cool head or understanding yet to function at the level our top performers are at now, i.e Pogba and Martial. Clearly Sanchez was much more creative as the striker today, than Rashford last week, he should watch Sanchez’ movement closely, because he can learn a lot from it.
Now, please don’t brand me a Rashford hater, because I’m far from it. I want what’s best for Manchester United, and as of now, Rashford coming on vs tired defenders is preferable to him starting.