He absolutely is lazy. He doesn't even challenge for headers 90% of the time.
10
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 40
- Goals
- 8
- Assists
- 5
- Yellow cards
- 2
- Red cards
- 1
Okay, it's just that I can't actually recall any good ones (and I was eventually watching with a specific focus on that and a growing sense of disbelief, thinking "how long is it actually possible for him to go without having one single meaningful successful involvement?"). Until quite shortly before he was substituted, when he had a couple.
It's a good question ! I don't think too many Premier league clubs would be interested considering his present form & his big wage. The rumours persist that PSG are interested & they certainly could afford him but after that I can't think of too many destinations for him other than Saudi.
His complete lack of physicality is even more infuriating to me than his laziness. He's just so unbelievably weak.
That was by no means a "perfectly good pass".
If the video was just his bad touches and not every touch then I might have been a bit harsh on him. I do remember him being pretty hopeless but that video makes his incompetence seem worse than it was.
I don’t recall him playing any particularly good passes etc - bar one nice one into Bruno which might be around the time you are thinking of.
The reality is that none of our attackers saw much of the ball and when they did they were usually isolated against very good defenders. Whoscored has Rashford down as having 4 unsuccessful touches and Garnacho 6, so both struggled from that perspective.
Rashford, of course, did also manage to score a worldie, to give us some chance, and make at least three defence splitting runs which should have potentially led to one on ones (one messed up by his own touch and the other two by poor passes from teammates).
I’m by no means saying he played well overall yesterday but he did still produce a moment of magic and was the only threat we had to City.
I can't really recall either, I just remember thinking "oh finally something successful" a couple of times and that it was almost ironic that he was substituted just after that happened.
Garnacho also had a really, really bad game. Bruno was really the only attacker to put in a pretty good performance. Although mainly in the first half.
Was this the best Goal of his career? Can only think of a goal for England in a frieldy vs Costa Rica that was on a similar level.
Free kick against Chelsea maybe?
Great goal but complete shit otherwise.
Reminded me of Rooney vs Newcastle
Looked terrified of Kyle Walker out there
It does feel very low class to criticize him for the goal, but I think that the lack of team effort is obvious when looking at the seconds before Bruno's pass.
Rashford, and others, jogging up the field instead of sprinting to be in position. Luckily, arriving late gave a good result this time.
Rashford, and others, jogging up the field instead of sprinting to be in position. Luckily, arriving late gave a good result this time.
How are posters still defending him? It's so weird. He puts no effort in every game! If he was just out of form then it wouldn't be a big deal, but this is pure lack of effort, laziness every game. This is not some weird agenda by everyone against a particular player, if other players were this lazy they'd be getting called out as well.
Freekick against Chelsea was a beauty
Don't think he had a good game, but that particular ball bounce has nothing to do with "professional player". Hyperbole much.
Meaningless goals shouldnt even be considered.
His free kick vs Chelsea in a 2-1 win has to be his best.
Essay man dedicated a post to his goal on IG despite the bad loss. The comments are comedy gold tbh 
He's quite tall and very well built, so why is he so fecking weak?
Comments are just him getting predictably cooked. Weird that his PR team thought this was a good idea.Essay man dedicated a post to his goal on IG despite the bad loss. The comments are comedy gold tbh
I think he posted it without caring what they'd say because no self respect PR team would think the timing of that is good
Yep and also that post pretty much sums him up as a player, all he really cares about is his personal glory with his selfish play both defensively and offensively.
hopefully the goal helped keep his transfer value up a bit. Over him at this point
Similar to Spurs game with the hand gesture. We didnt even win the game, but he scored, so job done
I always liked this one. Great finish.
Rashford wasn't always like this. I remember him being the type of player who wasn't scared to get into physical duels before the bad back injury. There's a fairly popular video from a few years ago where he beats Van Dijk to a loose ball then basically outmuscles him to win possession.
It seems like ever since he had that back + shoulder injury he just doesn't use physical attributes as much (except pace). He pulls out of 50/50s and barely tries to win aerial duels as well. Plays the game like a 5 ft 7 winger instead of a 6 ft 1 forward. He needs to be instructed to be stronger in duels. I'm really worried about Højlund not being back for the Everton game, Tarkowski and Branthwaithe are probably looking forward to an easy game if Rashford plays striker again.
As someone who’s had a bad back injury, I can vouch for it being difficult psychologically afterwards when it comes to going in for challenges. It’s probably all in his head.
I think the stress fracture permanently fecked him up in some way
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...re-injury-manchester-united-england-liverpool
He basically goes down like that photo every game these days. Ole's comments (“aggravated his back [against Wolves]; he has had trouble [there] before”) are also indicative of a condition that he's managing.
I remember lots of comments after that where it was always said he looked injured and not at his best. Maybe injures have taken their toll on his body and it was too much football for him back then? Worth remembering we went into that season with Martial, Rashford and Greenwood as our strikers and all of them were very young and played a lot of games.
I always remember Sir Alex saying that Liverpool ruined Michael Owen's fitness and that it wouldn't have happened at United. Not sure that's true but it's an interesting observation.
He was such an entertaining player to watch as a youngster. So direct and full of energy, and all those goals in the big games
. Such a shame that he's evolved into this pathetic Ronaldo wannabe.The 'bad back injury' was a Pars Fracture/Spondylolysis. 1 in every 5 athletes experience it. For specific sports - football is one of them - that number goes up to 1 in 4.
From John Hopkins.
From John Hopkins.
On a pure numbers basis, it's likely that at least a handful of the squad have had it at some point - they just don't have a PR team with a direct contact to influential journalists to let everyone know about it. Lindelof played through longstanding back issues in 2020/21, Hojlund had a back problem when he arrived (which Andy Mitten said was a Pars Fracture). Wild that it's still a discussion years down the line with Rashford.
Exactly. Don't get me wrong, it's an unreal strike, but then he fecks up two absolute brilliant chances that top forwards take (or at very least get a shot on target). He simply cannot do the basics! He's become more lazy each season, for a bloke that is pretty ripped by all accounts, he's eased off the ball far too easy.
He's not alone though, he's just one of the bigger names that are easy to target that when the chips are down, they down tools. He's on a list of at least 6-8 first team players I can't wait to see the back of. With Rashford (similar to Bruno and Casemiro), we have the ability to move players on their way down with big wages for a decent fee. There's £150million at least in those three and with a competent recruitment team and Ineos dollars, I'm sure we'd do much better.
Welcome to the Caf. Posters become weirdiy obsessed with players/managers and will defend them no matter what. They seem to think it makes them better fans or something. The reality is that they end up looking like oddballs when they can't see what literally everyone else is seeing.
Also, remember the sheer condescending behavior from some posters last season about the 'x'% of posters who wanted him sold
Anyone got the video?
Can not be dropped this dude.. Unbelievable, it makes supporting team so much harder, when performances is never the key metric. It's all about names, market value and power.
Useless broken club.
Useless broken club.
The problem is there is literally no-one else. The squad is empty I mean just look at the bench all kids except Antony, Amrabat and Eriksen.
Man Utd 2:0 Everton
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Pleased with him today. Got very little service but fitness looked strong and he kept making good runs throughout. Didn’t see any of the irritation he’s shown earlier in the season in his teammates’ lack of quality. Nice penalty.
Good performance and brilliant pen.
Scored a penalty