Erm no he wasn't, he made less than 30 crosses in the whole of last season.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Did he see an opposition defender driving in the next lane and decide to drive straight into them?
Seriously? Source? I know we played most of the season without a proper number 9 but even still, that seems incredibly low. Although I have absolutely no idea what the average number of crosses for a forward in the top 6 is.
Should have passed to casa for an easy goal. Story of his life…
That’s what City or Liverpool would do, look at Mane and Sterling being offloaded, unfortunately because we have no footballing knowledge in senior management and he’s a local lad he’ll be here for the rest of his career and still playing brain dead football.
He is jogging like a semi retired CR7. With CR7 at least you knew he still had some residual magic dust up his sleeves and he still managed smart runs.
Doesn’t seem in a good place mentally. Head down and straight down the tunnel at the final whistle, drove off in a foul mood and crashed his car. I wonder if we'll see him next game? Could be the next Sancho situation loading
Rashford was 12 yards out in the centre of the goal, with time enough to get a good shot off. The pass to Casemiro would have had to have been well timed and the defender closest to Cas was close enough to get across and make it difficult, plus Casemiro would have had to fire it in from an angle. I don’t think it’s clear-cut (although with the benefit of replays and slow-mos the pass probably was just about the correct call). I doubt it would be being analysed or criticised if Hojlund had done the same thing.
You can't seriously compare yourself and a professional footballer when it comes to decision making. They have a split second to make calls unlike you.
We have been saying this for years about him that his decision making will improve. It hasn't. In fact it's literally is the same as it was when he was younger.
People made hopeful comments about lukaku and his first touch too.
Yeah I had no issues with him shooting at th time it happened. Pictures can always looks deceiving. I do think there are times he needs to get his head up especially after his words before the game of working with hoijlund.
It does sometimes get frustrating because when he has a one on one he will look to pass,when there are five men he seems to want to run and dribble or shoot.
This post is spot on. Agree with every word of it.
Hopefully nobody got hurt and it is just a minor material damage.
1.) No
2.) you can’t.
I don’t trust him. When things are not going well, he’s one of the first players to sulk.
We can blame coaching all we like but he's not got the IQ of a tree, he should know running, working hard, pressing and giving a shit is needed..
He shouldn't need instruction to look up in every scenario, to track his man in every scenario.
If only he was coached to not run into a forest of defenders when there's several players around him who could be put through if only someone taught him how to use the ball.
Sorry, he's coached. All that is on him
He shouldn't need instruction to look up in every scenario, to track his man in every scenario.
If only he was coached to not run into a forest of defenders when there's several players around him who could be put through if only someone taught him how to use the ball.
Sorry, he's coached. All that is on him
Rashford is a problem because he isn’t good enough to justify his shoddy general play and lack of effort. I’m surprised none of the managers we’ve had have been able to push him to learning to put in a shift. We wonder why we are an individualistic team but when your best attacker likes playing on his own, that’s what you get.
Thing is, how come no manager has forced him that putting in a proper shift is mandatory? I mean Mo Salah is 5 times the footballer and works 5 times as hard as well. It’s bizarre - going by his off the ball effort you’d think he’s peak Ronaldo or Messi
He is morphing into Valencia. He will sprint ahead. Then come to a complete stop trying to beat the defender. Give up then turn back and pass back to our defender.
Man management. That's potential responsible. He's become an arrogant, lazy, petulant, sulky and selfish player lauded and praised well beyond his abilities largely due to his off the field ventures. His home grown status and admirable PR, and maybe his nationality, means there's been a huge reluctance to come to that obvious conclusion
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Not sure why he just stopped running. Did well to keep up but gave up when it really mattered
He’s just a symptom of what has been a dysfunctional organisation for far too long, he’s still probably our most important player. He’s not perfect by any means but you can only function in this kind of disorganisation for so long.
It’s simple phychology that if you want to change someones behaviour you have to make it easy for them to adjust or it’ll be too difficult and they’ll eventually abandon the practice before too long.
Asking someone who’s practically a striker and your best goalscorer to consistently track runners into the defensive areas is a practice in futility.
It’s simple phychology that if you want to change someones behaviour you have to make it easy for them to adjust or it’ll be too difficult and they’ll eventually abandon the practice before too long.
Asking someone who’s practically a striker and your best goalscorer to consistently track runners into the defensive areas is a practice in futility.
So many excuses are made for Rashford, it's Mourinhos fault, it's Rangnicks fault, Ole isn't a coach, he can't play on the left he needs to play through the middle, actually he isn't a number 9 he has to play on the right, he can't play on the right he needs to play on the left, he needs Shaw in the team, something must be going on in his head, he is carrying a back injury 3 years ago..
He is just shite at this level, if he was at Everton he would be amazing for them as that's his level. Playing for a team that supposedly wants to win EVERYTHING he isn't good enough. But but but he scored 30 last season, he had a great season. No, no he didn't he was good in the month leading up to the world cup and for 2 months after the world cup. PURPLE PATCH. Almiron also had a purple patch, it's not a big deal. We won the League cup in February, he signed his bumper contract and he has done nothing of note since.
Standards are so low at United at the moment though that a lot of fans think he is the answer. Go back and watch Ryan Giggs highlights to remind yourself of what a proper United winger looks like.
He is just shite at this level, if he was at Everton he would be amazing for them as that's his level. Playing for a team that supposedly wants to win EVERYTHING he isn't good enough. But but but he scored 30 last season, he had a great season. No, no he didn't he was good in the month leading up to the world cup and for 2 months after the world cup. PURPLE PATCH. Almiron also had a purple patch, it's not a big deal. We won the League cup in February, he signed his bumper contract and he has done nothing of note since.
Standards are so low at United at the moment though that a lot of fans think he is the answer. Go back and watch Ryan Giggs highlights to remind yourself of what a proper United winger looks like.
He stopped running because Reguilon is pointing at the man with the ball (pause that clip at 4 seconds), telling Rashford to cover him and that Reguilon will track the runner. Hence why Rashford is then throwing his hands in the air wondering why Reguilon has caused confusion and then hasn’t followed the runner.
Got it, thank you.
He doesn’t need any excuses made for him. He scored a third of our goals last season, what do people expect us to do?
Like him or not, we need him now, and we’ll probably not be in a position to replace himany time soon.
Mbappe replacement for PSG. Best time to cash in on him.
Overall i thought he was somewhat better yesterday, more often than not he challenged for headers when the ball was there to be won, normally he just stands there. Players won’t always make the right decision, the vast majority of attacking players will always attempt the shot in the situation where a picture showing the overview would indicate Casemiro is the better option. What you want however, is that more often than not he makes the right decision in the buildups.
For me, the main problem has always been, and continues to be, that he first and foremost thinks about scoring himself. Sane will constantly look up to get an overview, should he he go for an early pass, hold on to the ball etc. Rashford is generally just focused on what’s in front of him. Which is insanely frustrating considering the amount of times we get the ball to him in key areas on the pitch. It’s the sort of scenarios top clubs more often than not score from, while we are currently miles away from taking advantage. Getting him to find that balance between when he should go for individual glory and, the vast majority of times when he should pass the ball to someone else, combined with his ability to get on the ball in key areas on the pitch, and i reckon he’ll consistently perform at a very high level throughout an entire season.
For me, the main problem has always been, and continues to be, that he first and foremost thinks about scoring himself. Sane will constantly look up to get an overview, should he he go for an early pass, hold on to the ball etc. Rashford is generally just focused on what’s in front of him. Which is insanely frustrating considering the amount of times we get the ball to him in key areas on the pitch. It’s the sort of scenarios top clubs more often than not score from, while we are currently miles away from taking advantage. Getting him to find that balance between when he should go for individual glory and, the vast majority of times when he should pass the ball to someone else, combined with his ability to get on the ball in key areas on the pitch, and i reckon he’ll consistently perform at a very high level throughout an entire season.
From the video it just looks like Reguilon is pointing at the player Rashford is originally covering, it makes no sense whatsoever to attempt to swap as the Burnley player is already making a run in behind Reguilon.
I am led to believe he has split up with his fiancée again a few months back after being caught playing away which would be a first on the pitch this season 
This is similar to when they last split up a couple of years ago and his performance level dipped horrendously until they got back together and announced there engagement. They have/had been long term sweethearts since school and apart from being stunning is not your usual wag type.
On watching him this season i can not believe how he seems absolutely gassed after a sprint and blowing out his a**e with hands on knees
With regards to the road traffic accident and passing the location every day i don't know how it was possible to take out the traffic lights on a straight road unless he was driving like a k**b
This is similar to when they last split up a couple of years ago and his performance level dipped horrendously until they got back together and announced there engagement. They have/had been long term sweethearts since school and apart from being stunning is not your usual wag type.On watching him this season i can not believe how he seems absolutely gassed after a sprint and blowing out his a**e with hands on knees
With regards to the road traffic accident and passing the location every day i don't know how it was possible to take out the traffic lights on a straight road unless he was driving like a k**b
700k car!! 
He very clearly is pointing at the player with the ball. If he is trying to point at the runner he needs his arm checked out. He even takes a couple of steps to start to cover the runner.
If you don’t think Rashford understood Reguilon was going to follow the runner, why do you think he stops? There is either significant confusion (which has to be on the defender as the player who should be in control in that scenario) or Reguilon just messes up. Either way, it is not an example of Rashford being lazy as seems to be being suggested.
Probably.I am led to believe he has split up with his fiancée again a few months back after being caught playing away which would be a first on the pitch this season
On watching him this season i can not believe how he seems absolutely gassed after a sprint and blowing out his a**e with hands on knees
With regards to the road traffic accident and passing the location every day i don't know how it was possible to take out the traffic lights on a straight road unless he was driving like a k**b
Do you think Reguilon could mark 2 players cause it makes no sense to chase someone and just stop either. He’s lazy, and when he doesn’t score goals (this is why g+a stats are misleading) he is wasting the ball time and time again. Just wouldn’t get away with it at a top club.
Not sure he'll start and/or play in the CC but for sure, as long as he is healthy he will start
Reguilon obviously makes a decision to follow the runner then changes his mind. However, by that stage he has caused Rashford to stop as Rashford believes that he is going to track, so neither follows him in time.
I’m not having a go at Reguilon by the way. He’s started really well and it’s a split second call when he’s also getting used to playing with Rashford as well. My only point is that it’s most definitely not an example of Rashford failing to track back.
Yes it is, no way Reguilon is covering both players and it's his player to follow. He cannot be arsed to defend and track runners and he puts in zero defensive effort.
Navigation system told him to pass the car in front, but the instructions were unclear to him.
The FB calls the shots. He clearly directs Rashford to swap with him. It's a terrible call but from Rashford's perspective if he doesn't try and do it, they might both be chasing the runner and leave the other attacker free to run directly at the goal/pick a pass.
It's a miscommunication. It happens. They've not played together for long. Both deserve a bollocking for it, but it's not evidence of either of them being crap or lazy.
i think one of his main issues is that he doesn’t make split second decisions
And people make split second decisions everyday with a lot more on the line than a football player. So yeah you can easily compare the two.The point anyway is that as I’ve grown older I’ve become more open to other suggestions and trying them out other than just sticking to what I feel like doing. So for me his decision making can still improve and I actually feel after the Brighton game he has made a slight effort to try and pass more but he just isn’t making the right choices when it matters. Hopefully that comes.
That's what 2 weeks worth of jogging around doing not a lot will get you.700k car!!
Anyway, here's former United defender Paul Parker's take:
"I was criticising Rashford when he scored goals because I wanted him to provide more for the team. Now, he is not scoring goals anymore, and his decision-making is still poor".
"Everyone was saying that he was winning Man United games, but the only thing they could come up with is that he was scoring goals".
"It has taken people a while, but now they are finally seeing that he is not contributing to anything. He should be because he is a fast winger with decent technical abilities, but in fact, he is just a selfish player who lives on the back of being good in February".
"I think that Man United rushed in too quickly to give him this huge contract. Overall, he has been delivering a poor return throughout his Man United career. That's a fact."
“I think the fans are tired of seeing him faking an injury all the times he gets tackled. They want to see him get up, chase back and get the ball back".
"What he is doing is something you would expect to see in a schoolyard from a petulant child. You wouldn't expect it to happen at Old Trafford. Not in a million years".
"But he does that every single time, and it shows me that he might not be a player for Man United after all. He needs to change his game and his attitude."
If you are quoting Paul Parker, then you might as well start quoting Gabby Agbonlahor (sadly as I loved Parker as a player for us). He’s endlessly negative about United. Here’s a couple of Paul Parker’s previous quotes:
“He [Weghorst] has everything about him that a player like Anthony Martial doesn't," Parker told Soccernews. "Martial comes out and wears gloves. I'm not saying that we are the warmest country in the world but come on… We are in May.”
"Bruno Fernandes is the kind of person, if the boat was sinking, he would be the first person to jump out of it. That says it all in my opinion.”
In real time to be fair I didn’t see the pass option but looking at the replay it’s clear he should pass it in fairness. If he doesn’t pass he has to score and that’s too often the case with him.