10
I thought the same. Not good by any means and went hiding for 90%, but had some good moments. Also no headless shooting. Attacking wise our most decent player although this is not saying much.
It’s nothing to do with his movement, his movement is probably one of his strong points. His problems are he can’t be arsed to run when we don’t have the ball and he’s technically not good enough.
Can't head the ball, no left foot, no real instincts inside the box of where to be. A general lack of variety in his goals. He's no poacher.
Yeah, he played well. Probably our best player (although that’s not saying much) Stats support that option too.
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It's more like 0/10. Let's be real.
No he wasn’t that bad, if anything 2/10 is slightly lower
Nearer £20m would be more realistic
For the English Mbappe who also happens to be a humanitarian? You must be joking, it’s at least 25mil
There was a situation yesterday right around the edge of the box, where Bruno overlapped him and would essentially be free on goal. But as always our Rashford tried to shoot through or inbetween to defenders.
I certainly wouldn’t say he played well. He was terrible just like the rest of the team. The only one who had any ounce of credibility was Malacia when he came on.
How do you know? I only watched the first half and he played ok while I was watching. There’s been plenty of very poor performances from him over the last season and a half, so it’s not like there hasn’t been loads of opportunities to slag him off. I always find it weird when people basically refuse to see a good(ish) performance amongst the poor ones.
Didn't Rashford do that plenty last season? Can now see why they both are mates.
I watched the whole game and I honestly didnt see anything at all from him to make me think “he played well” in the first half of the entire game. Literally nothing. That was the same for the whole team. It was an absolute disaster. I don’t bash players for the sake of it, but I can’t pick a single player and say he played well for us that half never mind Rashford.
With some of our players I feel like it's now got to the point where I'm reminded of the naughty kid at school analogy. When someone is so bad that you lose all hope, expectations disappear and standards become so low that any minor positive thing they do is blown out of proportion and they are rewarded for doing something they should already be doing as a bare minimum.
Literally the very first minute he flicked the ball over a Brentford player drove forward and almost played Ronaldo through. There were other bits and pieces that he did well. It wasn’t a great performance but it was fine. Anyway. Your mind’s obviously made up, so whatever.
Well again, if the school is shit and the class are all crap - then a good kid even at his minimal then deserves a bit of recognition for performing even basically decent by himself.
He was better in the second half as we managed to move it a bit quicker at times and get him a bit of space. Laid on two really good chances for Eriksen and looked dangerous when we got him involved. Him and Maguire were the only two starters who did ok.
The only thing I can remember from his appearance yesterday is a botched shot, after running into 3 defenders. He's just bad.
Funny thing is, If he'd continued running, he could've had a shot, from the left side of the goal. Rashford would have ran all the way, just to miss.
He did do it last season when someone shot and he refused to follow it up.Didn't Rashford do that plenty last season? Can now see why they both are mates.
Both him and Bruno were getting some ridiculous excuses for poor form back then. People were making them as if they're always tired and a rest will make them good again. I mean yes exhaustion plays a role but when it's said in every poor performance it becomes ridiculous.
A "fine" performance with yet zero goal contributions? Come on... He's been wank and it's been the case for almost two years now.
I’m not arguing about (or even discussing) his form over the last two years. Just yesterday’s match. When he was ok. And I’m using the word fine to mean ok, nothing more. Although obviously it means he stands out in a match where so many United players were absolutely shit.
He apparently believes himself good enough for PSG where Mbappe, Messi and Neymar play - almost certainly contract negotiation games but, if we take it at face value (as he hopes Arnold and Murtough will), he should be doing more than being ok against Brentford, (and that being his best rated performance in months). If United are to recover, booting out Rashford could be a modern equivalent of Fergie selling Whiteside and McGrath. They were by no stretch of the imagination the worst players in the squad and McGrath went on to have a successful career with Villa and Ireland but it sent out a clear message that things were going to be different. Kicking out a “star” with more murals than medals and who won’t make the England squad for Qatar would give me similar confidence* that things might change in 2022.
Don't think he stood out. Managed not to be the absolute shittest of a bad bunch I'll give you that. But I do think that eg Sancho was even worse. Did feck all.
Our squad needs such a radical overhaul we desperately need to find at least a few players that have a future here. I would have Rashford, Sancho and Martial as the most likely to thrive if and when all the other broken elements are fixed and we start to look like a proper teams. Worth a go anyway. We can’t sell everyone*.
Yeah, that's the thing. if they can't be arsed to track back in the second game of the season, after losing the first game, I don't think they should have a future here. Those are not connected with tactics, those are a very basic thing to do for a footballer, and yet they can't do it
He use to be the kind of attacker defenders hate coming up against the most simply because he keeps having a go at you none stop, he wasn't world class but he was a proper player ever improving. Off ball runs, on the ball and even maintained that intensity defensively, Ole broke him when he worked him to the ground.
