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It was just a cheap jest mate. Your assessment is sound as far as I’m concerned. I think we let our players down as a team, all throughout the field. We don’t really play to get the best out of our players. The City example is on the money, because I have no doubt Pep would get a tune out of Marcus from either side, which is somewhat the point: he knows how to use players, and get the best out of them in a group setting.Well, you haven't actually
I know Rashford can do great stuff on occasion, have no doubts of that whatsoever.
My point or criticism is that he too often makes a decision that is on the low probability end of being successful in it's outcome. So far too often he will go for that 20% chance of something coming off, or often lower. Now every so often, one of these things he tries is going to come off, according to the probability and Rashford will meg a player or score a worldie or something. And the rashford fan club on here go "see, I told you so, he's WORLD CLASS', while overlooking the long term impact the 80% of the time these decisions result in a poor outcome and basically contribute towards costing us points.
Watching any Guardiola team, the decision making is so carefully managed. Once it veers into loss making territory it's stamped or rather coached out of the players. You can see a similar thing in Kane's game, where what makes him so devastatingly effective - and he seems to be getting better at this - is just the way he seems to inwardly calculate the effectiveness of anything he tries and mostly manage to pick the best decisions consistently.
So it doesn't matter if Rashford scores a worldie. I've never doubted his general ability. But his decision making is a massive glaring problem that shouldn't be glossed over and ignored for months at a time just because every 6 months or so he might score a contender for goal of the month.
Gets really tedious how this quickly turns into a sh*t flinging contest because someone has dared to criticise people's hero.
Fair enough, seems like we agree anyway. Yes it would be great to see what Pep would do with Rashford. It's interesting how in general, Rashford does play better for England. Must be because he has these more mature better players around him, something every one and his dog now probably agrees we could do with here.
Yes, there’s no doubt about it. Of course, more dangerous players to watch, the more space there’ll be for everyone.
Maybe something to do with attitude. In the England setup he isn't the main man and doesn't have the same pressure to score goals like he does for for us. Which might explain why for us he mostly runs around like a headless chicken, trying to score from 30 yards and trys to do it all himself. He's putting too much pressure on himself and it's helping no-one.
I'd agree with this and the club gave him the 10 shirt, lucrative contract and told him he'll be the main forward
From an angle it looked very nice then I saw from a keepers view and it was straight at him onto his paw. If De Gea let that in we would all say he has lost it. Nice skill though
You could write a book about all the things our club has mishandled.
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He said 11 out of 31 I think.
He scored 3 goals vs Chelsea.
My bad!
Yeah sorry I didn't haven't updated since xMy bad!
I just copied and pasted the opening post from @FootyGirl88 in her "Rashford's record against the top 6" thread, only adding his goal tonight, forgetting that she made said thread before our 4-0 victory over Chelsea.
No worries. I actually think his stats were updated later on in the thread after Chelsea, but my lazy arse couldn't be bothered scrolling through pages to find it (even though I see now they were on the exact same page I posted on!), so I think it's only fair I take the blame
