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I am concerned with that myself too. Or at least seems like not exactly focusing with the football.
That’s the thing, whilst he isn’t a veteran he isn’t a kid either. His game time is probably on par with what you’d expect a player two or three years older than him to have accumulated; especially at the top level for club and country.
A sprinter then ?
So are you saying that since the 2 or 3 years ago you mention, his back to back 20 goal seasons playing with injuries (mostly from wide left as well) point to a downward trajectory?
This is what has stood out to me as well, he just looks out of sorts in general, even though he got an assist. Not sure why he was playing RW and Sancho LW either.
Exactly. Once a player has gone through pubity and reached their potential in terms of muscle mass and height, then the only real vehicle for improvement is match experience, which he has a ton of. He’s made more Big Team appearances than Henderson, Jones, Bailey, Lindelof, VDB, Lingard etc, despite being younger than all of them
He's likely a better player than Timo Werner and obviously he thrived as a pace merchant under Rangnick, I expect Rangnick to use him similarly with Cristiano as the Poulsen/Silva target 9 type.
What's there to be happy about over the past few weeks
Suppose he should've been doing cartwheels when we got smashed by Pool or giving out high fives as we got dominated by City?Sancho would actually cross better.
Agreed.
I thought at first it didn't make much sense but thinking about it, he has very similar instincts to Ronaldo. Having him on the right makes sure they don't get in each other's way.
What's wrong with a normal horizontal passing?
Rangnick also likes quick, fast transition football. Something Rashford constantly is looking at with his runs.
If you can say that about Rashford, you can say that just as well about any other player in our squad. I think he will struggle massively.
He would be equally poor on the left. He's just out of form, doesn't matter where we play him. If he was against an opponent who leaves a lot of space to run into he'd thrive, that's when he looks world class. Personally I don't see much of a difference in Rashford on the left / on the right.
I haven’t read one player on the forum that won’t thrive under Ralf. He must be some sort of God who’s going turn our rubbish players into star performers. Bring back Bebe we were all wrong about him Ralf will turn him into Messi
Depends on how much horizontal passing. LVG type horizontal passing gets you nowhere as he showed.
I agree with you. His attitude has always been the biggest issue after he broke through. Ralf will not tolerate that kind of nonsense. Not only Rashford but by any player.
Vertical passing as in watch out low-flying planes? No problem, Ralf.
No he hasn’t. I’ll await one of the Caf back experts to tell us he’s finished. For me he’s just in poor form and we have numerous fans who don’t like him and pummel him constantly to sway opinion.
Both his agility and confidence in himself seems to have evaporated, to me. Perhaps egg and chicken, but he’s not the dynamic player he was prior to that injury as far as I can see and he doesn’t even try the stuff he once did in hand with that.
Yeah, it's quite obvious that Ole favouring him didn't help at all, I said last year that Rashford suffered a lot from Ole's coaching and playing him all the time. Rashford's approach to the game is totally changed, he is nothing like the player who first broke on the scene.
