His one-touch lay off in the first half to Blind (I think) was amazing. If anyone has the gif, please do post!
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Based from some of the responses here, it's like Rashford has to prove his worth twice over because he's a local Academy lad rather than a South American wonderkid or a Youtube Compilation GOAT from Eastern Europe.
People are being overly harsh in some instances, expecting him to be the finished product at 18 years of age. Of course his first touch and dribbling can be a little off at times, that is going to happen. As long as he makes steady improvements then he will be more than fine.
Love how the kid just keeps scoring. His strength is also very impressive. I'd like to see him be a bit selfless though. He doesn't strike me as the kind of talent that's going to be as well rounded as martial who you can see the whole package from, but Rashford does need make a bit of an effort to put team mates in good positions ahead of trying something flashy. Ibra in particular had a number of moments yesterday where he made good runs and took up great positions but team mates ignored that in favour of doing something solo.
Rashford can be forgiven the odd off day, in comparison to Rooney he does score regularly and does actually have good games. Oh, and he's 18....
If zlatan was coming through the academy this season I would expect questions on his technique and link up play because before the Leicester game it was very loose, however we know how good it is usually so there are less question marks around it.
I'm with you though, I assume he will go on to be a good technical player and even if not, its not like that is the end for a striker, it is a position where other qualities come to the fore, when playing on the wings though it does need to be a little tighter.
All his goals this season have been from about a yard out. Real fox in the box.
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Madness! I'd like to see the ages they made their appearances at doubt he's much older than most of them.
That's pretty impressive! Though I guess playing time plays into it, Rashford practically became a first team player immediately whereas the others were probably eased into it a bit more.
officially better than messi
More potential than messi. Glaston logic.
Can someone please verify Marcus' height? Wikipedia says he's 5'11", but on all the training videos I've seen he's the same height as Timothy Fosu Mensah...who I thought everyone said was pretty big.
Transfermarkt says 1,80m fwiw. He seems much taller though, so probably the truth is closer to 1,85m.
Do we know the competitions of the others? Because this is the EPL, that's more impressive than Zlatan in Sweden, or Suarez in Argentina...
Thats pretty class.
To be fair to him, he had a lightening start which helped retain his place.
Shame he only has another 5% improvement to go...
Probably past his best even. Time to get rid
He's in his last 4 years of his contract as well, cash in while we can.
Can't believe Jose gave him a 4 year contract. We are stuck with him for that time
I blame Moyes.
I for one would be very sad if we only saw a 5% improvement in a 1 in 2 forward playing half his time on the wing...
Pfft, don't you know players don't improve technically after 18? It's a known fact.
Man Utd 1:0 Zorya
Still cant believe that ball didnt go in.
Playing well tonight - as usual. Would still like to see him up the middle a bit more
Playing well tonight - as usual. Would still like to see him up the middle a bit more
He isn't playing that well. He is ok I suppose. Not getting involved much. No one other than mata and Pogba are mind you
Needs to play upfront.
Dribbles too much. Needs to look up at times and play the pass.
Some of his dribbles are embarrassing, he is a bit over rated
Didn't score on his Europa debut. Get rid
Serious post or nah?
He's definitely not overrated but he's getting a bit greedy. Needs to be reined in slightly.
Didn't think he had such a good game tonight, nothing came off in the dribbling department but he did smash the crossbar with our only good effort of the first half.
Is this because you got stick for questioning his technique?
He runs the ball out of play every match, needs to stop.
Like Mou said, Rashford is best up top, but they are working on making him more comfortable on the wings. It will take some time though, he is a young lad.
He did, actually. You may not remember it though, because it wasn't just his Europa debut, it was also just his debut.
Didn't he already score against midtjylland last season?
I think he is. He can go from looking like the new Henry one minute to the new Obertan the next minute
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