It's his position and he's developing well there, whether he would was always the question. I doubt he would get as many goals/assists playing centrally himself, he is not really suited to it.
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I don’t understand the need to compare to a guy who had his worst ever PL season and had lost his head.
Rashford stats don’t need comparing to anyone, they are quite frankly tremendous. What a player and goalscorer he has become.
That's mostly true but the biggest thing he needed to do was learn to get into dangerous positions more often and he is doing that now. He'll never be a ruthless forward or a particularly technical one but get into the right position often enough and he will score goals.
All he needs now is to up that assists number by further maturing his game.
Worth comparing as every time Lukaku scores a goal in that snail pace of Italian league we are told by experts that he should never have been sold.
You want to know something interesting. I don’t think he is any different to last season. His gameplay in general is the same. His shooting, passing and determination was always there. What’s changed is our approach to games which has benefitted him and our attackers. It’s also the same with martial. I’m not seeing anything drastically different to him other than we are attacking more and he is playing centrally.
Although I’m not a big fan of Ole I’ve got to say he needs to be credited for moving rashford out wide after playing him centrally last season. Mourinho handicapped most of our attackers with the personnel he would use. Rashford would never be this lethal with lukaku leading the line. He and martial would also be fighting for the left spot if martial wasn’t already sold.
What we should take from this is progressive football is the way forward and is benefitting most of our players mainly Rashford. It’s why if things don’t work out for Ole we need to hire someone willing to play football.
Although I’m not a big fan of Ole I’ve got to say he needs to be credited for moving rashford out wide after playing him centrally last season. Mourinho handicapped most of our attackers with the personnel he would use. Rashford would never be this lethal with lukaku leading the line. He and martial would also be fighting for the left spot if martial wasn’t already sold.
What we should take from this is progressive football is the way forward and is benefitting most of our players mainly Rashford. It’s why if things don’t work out for Ole we need to hire someone willing to play football.
He is becoming a 20 goal per season striker.
Did you enjoy the goal he scored today (not the penalty)? Ziyech has been providing those type of crosses all season to Promes (at Ajax). Promes has scored a lot of goals in the league and CL from exactly that position. If we had Ziyech playing right Rashford would have a lot more goals this season. He is not going to score from the standard crosses James provides as he is not an old fashioned CF. He would benefit from a Ziyech type player.
Genuinely horrendous take. Jesus Christ.
His passing all around the pitch is so underrated because he can mess it up in the final third and make himself look bad, but he hardly makes any mistakes in the build up, and when he is open up to play some tiki taka with our midfielders he plays very nice football, quite often makes some very good passes into space like he did couple of times today for Mata, Martial and Williams. Another underrated part of his game.
Make your case then...
There is a reason why in parts of the season people have been going off on him and his performances through out this season. People didn’t just wake up and think you know what I’m going to have a go at Rashford today because I feel like it.
He gave them reasons to do it and if you genuinely look at his overall performances throughout this season he has been decent but I wouldn’t say he‘s played better than previous seasons. Yes he has scored goals but there is more to football than just scoring goals.
On the fantasy website he picked a knock and could miss the next game.
What I and others have criticized is his decision making and his stupid wide shots from impossible angle feeling like prime ronaldo. Hardly anyone doubted his talent. if he cuts that shit out then he is a formidable talent. It looks like someone of the coaching staff had some serious talk with him. more than happy if this continous.
Loved his new body feint skills.
That worked better than hit and run.
19 goals and counting, keep on going Rashy!
That worked better than hit and run.
19 goals and counting, keep on going Rashy!
Who was the last academy graduate to score 20 goals in a season?
edit: scary to think we could actually have two scoring a total of 50 this season
edit: scary to think we could actually have two scoring a total of 50 this season
Think it was Scholes in the early 2000s. Hughes did it a few times before him in the 90s.
He's phenomenal. I'd pretty much be okay at this stage dropping Martial to the bench, reinforcing the left and right flank with proper suppliers and a playmaking 10 in behind who is effective in the premier league. I'd prefer his starting point be the focus up front and have him drift out wide to make space. Tactically it would work better against every side (not just the poor ones) than what is happening with Martial and Rashford at the moment.
Rashford is awful upfront. For what reason we should mess around with his position? You suddenly found someone that is a foil and glue in our attack (Martial) and someone that is devastating with space in front to run (Rashford) and you think that we should disrupt that? at least your not the coach.
Watching that dynamic in our front line and thinking the next move we should make his shifting him to the centre is beyond foolish and a awful thought.
It's working
Remember when Rashford and Martial were competing for the left wing spot and both in decent form? Jose brought in Sanchez and bolloxed everything up. If it ain't broke don't fix it!
Regarding the match yesterday there's one thing we should notice imo. It's our whole attack and performance before and after he was took off.
Before he was took off we're looking very dangerous, like we could score at any moment, especially with our counter attack. After that, our attack and performance dropped considerably. Maybe it's because Ole gave instruction to slow down a bit but even our counter attack looked pretty clueless so imo it was largely because Rashford was took off.
Watching this lad develop and kick on this season has been an absolute pleasure.
Love him.
Love him.
Yep. He's going to be an absolute superstar playing on the left. Credit to Ole for finding his best position.
Exactly. Once Mason matures we will have a lethal front 3 for years to come.
Dont understand this at all. Rashford at his best has space in front of him with space to run into. He has been phenomenal from the left hand side cutting in, why on earth would we change that? His best position is unequivocally from the left, and there are few players better in the world right now in that position. He’s only going to get better too. Instead of moving our best player out of position, why not strengthen the other positions? Buy a striker if we need a striker. Don’t move Rashford there, where he has routinely underperformed.
This forum is full of knee jerking cretins. People have been slamming Rashford for ages, usually after a bad performance. The same they do with every young player that comes through. A few people have stood up at said, come on....he’s a kid, show some patience, you can see the game is there.....but the mouth frothing brigade is not to be quelled.
It’s always hilarious when said player starts to perform, and all the same people overhype the player to the Nth degree. A couple of bad performances, and they’ll be back saying how shit he is again. 99% of the player performance posts are just reactionary nonsense. We’d have no players left if it was left to the internet fans.
I really think he is already one of the best/most talented youngster in the game, alongside with Mbappe and Sancho.
His decision making/movement maybe still questionable, but that's normal for his age, most important he is improving every game, becoming more consistent in front of goals, and he is very fast and talented, there's no deny of that.
He is going to score at least 25-30 goals for us this season, maybe more.
Let's face it, if Barca or Real come with a bid of 150-200m tomorrow, I'd even told them to feck off.
His decision making/movement maybe still questionable, but that's normal for his age, most important he is improving every game, becoming more consistent in front of goals, and he is very fast and talented, there's no deny of that.
He is going to score at least 25-30 goals for us this season, maybe more.
Let's face it, if Barca or Real come with a bid of 150-200m tomorrow, I'd even told them to feck off.
I agree, the offense looked different when he was taken off. The problem though is that it's not just due to Rashford not being on the field anymore, as it's also been an effect when Martial is taken off and Rashford along with the rest of the team struggles to look as dangerous. Which is why......
......that's a bad idea.
Agree, take one of those two out and our attack just seems to stop existing.
He would be a more scary player if he is coached to lift his head. It would add tremedous composure to his game and make him almost unplayable. Hope his knocks go away.
I don't think he's going to stay as the left sided player for much longer, his next evolution of his ability will be to move to the focal point up front incorporate his ability in space on the flanks and the channels, supplementing that with proper creative players in all three positions at 7/11 and 10. He can run, sniff out goal scoring positions off the ball when we have it and finish moves without the burden of relying on the weakest aspect of his game at the moment which is his creativity in general. The mistake might have been mentioning martial having to make way. It seems the usual crew from his thread have shown up to feign personal disgust on his behalf.
I think that will be the next evolution of this team going forward over the next three to five years, we'll see if it happens or not. I'd much rather have specialist players playing in specialist positions going forward and right now Rashford has shown where the evolution point lies in my eyes, even though the attack as a whole has been wildly inconsistent this season we have strikers playing everywhere, central midfielders on the flanks, flank players in the hole and up front. The whole thing is a bit of a mess and that has borne out in the wider results across the season. It needs streamlining and bolstering and if we're going to be honest about having one guy up front it will more than likely be Rashford. We'll see though, right now he's a delight to watch and will easily be our player of the season.
Rashford and Martial works well together, in fact I'd even argue Rashford would become less effective without Martial up front with him.
we have seen Rashford is less effective when Martial is not there. However, we haven’t seen Rashford work with another good centre forward at United. He needs another player up top be be most effective, that’s a definite.
Sole goal threats aren't as useful anymore unless they're very clinical, so what you're proposing makes no sense.
If Martial has an off day, Rashford can pick up the slack and vice versa. If there's only one target the whole team is providing for and he has an off day, then you're in trouble. I thought we already established that with Lukaku.
Wonder what the target is now for the season. 30 goals? It should be achievable.
Rashford deserves proper recognition and respect. He's easily our best player and one of the best talents in Europe. At 22 knowing he's years off his peak and that is frightening. When we have better supply his numbers will increase. Can you imagine him in a Fergie team with actual service. Instead we have Lingard, Periera and Matic feeding him.
Anyone United fan that can't see he's our future has an agenda. In very uncertain, bleak times he's the real reason for optimism.
Anyone United fan that can't see he's our future has an agenda. In very uncertain, bleak times he's the real reason for optimism.
Rashford doesn't have the clinical finishing ability to play as the central striker and it's not really something you can develop. He's by far at his best out wide with space to run in to.
I thought the analysis on MOTD on Rashy was spot on, it highlighted his overall play and the other areas of his game, across the pitch.
To summarise, it’s not just his goals that have been impressive this season but the wider contribution has increased substantially
He’a becoming a world class forward in my view and whilst I agree he can still improve, that can be said about almost every player.
Claiming he’s been average is massively underplaying his contribution, we’d be in a significantly worse position if it wasn’t for Rashford.
He's very young Ronaldo-esque right now. One of the very best in the league in his position and can only get better.
Exactly. All this overall game play isn't that good but he's scoring goals thing is becoming very common and garbage. I really don't know what the expectations of him are tbf.
Only on Caf there can be a 5.6 rating for a 22yr old player who has 19 goals and 5 assists in 30 overall appearances this season. Even more surprising are the clowns who keep on defending that rating as if it's anyway near the deserved rating.
In my honest opinion he needs to separate himself from the likes of Lingard and Pogba so he can knuckle down and keep improving.
If he does that he will have a great career
If he does that he will have a great career
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