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Rashford was rubbish as a left winger when Lukaku was a striker.
No he wasn't. These posts are as annoying as "martial is useless" posts.
Rashford was rubbish as a left winger when Lukaku was a striker.
Rashford was rubbish as a left winger when Lukaku was a striker
When are people going to realise that the reason we are where we are is because players like Martial are considered amongst our best?
Players do not develop in silos. It's amazing how we happen to be only top club where players with potential and new signings dont develop.There’s a hell of a lot of people in our fanbase who constantly blow smoke up his arse.
He hasn’t developed anywhere near an acceptable rate since joining.
That’s debatable.
Rashford isn’t very good as a out and out striker, that’s not debatable, but he’s very good in his preferred position. If you’re stating he’s not produced any individual moments of genius this season, then good on ya, but you’re very wrong.
I'm not sure how much of it can be attributed to Martial. Rashford seemed to be carrying a knock and was in dire form, his form for both us and England improved at the same time. His form also continued in games where Martial was rested since then. I'm not convinced it's their partnership as much as it was just Rashford finding form again.That's not what I'm saying and not what the conversation is about. The conversation is about players able to lift a team by themselves on a regular basis, Rashford was subpar when Martial was out and is form went up the moment Martial was back in the team. The reason for that is that they complement each others and work well when they can lean on each others otherwise their performances deep significantly. And in the case of Rashford this season it was very obvious when you consider his performances and output when Martial was out. During the stretch of five PL games that Martial missed, Rashford registered 1 goal and 1 assist during the following five games that Martial started, Rashford registered 3 goals and 2 assists.
I want to support all the players but he really should be doing better. Against Burnley they had a total of five chances and scored two goals. We have the better of the play and created more yet did not convert easier chances for the better players we have. I am off the opinion if your not scoring as a centre forward you should be working the back line. Martial played the way the centre backs were comfortable not making them have to defend deep. He kept dropping deep and not attacking the box.( I do not know if this was the tactics) but, the teams who drag defenders into places they are not comfortable are all above us with strikers who work hard for their team.Good post, he's the caf's whipping boy again now though so this will fall on deaf ears.
I'm not sure how much of it can be attributed to Martial. Rashford seemed to be carrying a knock and was in dire form, his form for both us and England improved at the same time. His form also continued in games where Martial was rested since then. I'm not convinced it's their partnership as much as it was just Rashford finding form again.
With the amount we spent our forward line should not consist of two 21 year olds, an 18 year old, someone that failed on the wing so has been moved inside and an over the hill Mata. All of those players should be rotation options when their form is good, they shouldn't be saddled with being our entire attack.
League game against Spurs, Rashford scored twice when Martial was ill. Althought to be honest I thought there was three or four games instead of just two.It's the role that Martial plays not Martial himself. And Rashford form hasn't continued in games where Martial was rested, there is no data to support it because they have almost exclusively started together with the exception of the Chelsea cup game.
League game against Spurs, Rashford scored twice when Martial was ill. Althought to be honest I thought there was three or four games instead of just two.
No it's because of rubbish players in AM role and also lack of CM who can't create. So we have 3 players who barley create anything and FBs who don'tt offer anything in the attack. That's why we are struggling, not because Martial is considered as one of our better players.
Players do not develop in silos. It's amazing how we happen to be only top club where players with potential and new signings dont develop.
I agree with this to a degree. But we have a bunch of players who constantly have excuses made for them. Players have a role to play in their own development as well and too many times over the years Martial has failed to do the business. He’s just simply an inconsistent but talented players on his day. Never going to be an important player for a top side.
I don't think Martials good enough to do the CF job without competition but you act like we have a full balanced team and this guy was failing to do the business for us like Forlan was.
He's got inflated wages & he has a niche tactical role of a support striker/False 9 striker that not every manager uses so his time at United is going to get hard - but I really don't get the hate for him.
People hate him like he's Pogba, like he's Lukaku talking crap about United.
I really don't get this fan club.
Why can't we have a good collection of players.
Martial is more useful to a team build up than Gabriel Jesus, Lacazette, Abraham, Origi - just support him until his time his up. You might disagree but I think he is.
He's a useful player & he's currently our only damn attacker - the chance against Liverpool he fudging literally had to play ping pong off pereira to try and create a chance and people are pissed that he missed it.
We get Pochettino in the summer - Martials time at the club is done. We get someone like Nagelsmann then Martial is going to become more important than ever playing like Poulsen laying off chances to Rashford like he's Timo Werner.
I don’t hate him in the slightest.
He’s a talented but highly streaky player.
He’s nearing his mid twenties, has played about 200 games and scores about 1 in 4.
He better start improving soon.
I don’t hate him in the slightest.
He’s a talented but highly streaky player.
He’s nearing his mid twenties, has played about 200 games and scores about 1 in 4.
He better start improving soon.
There’s a hell of a lot of people in our fanbase who constantly blow smoke up his arse.
He hasn’t developed anywhere near an acceptable rate since joining.
A good goal, a deflection, but anyways a good goal. But he was weak besides that I think.
He doesnt have much impact in games lately. Goes missing and not much involved. Good that he got a goal though, hopefully he will kick on a bit.
Is it bad to score deflected goals? Was it not on target?
Some people always look at players performances in a vacuum. In reality, this isn't how things work. There are a couple of instances where I think Martial should be doing better, such as his movement, highlighted against Burnley when Andreas put a good pass into the near post where he assumed Martial was going to be, but he had pulled back outside the box. The main problem though is that we don't have enough players that are his quality. The only players around his level are Rashford and Pogba so naturally when they're out, Martial's form will suffer.Everyone on here who is full or criticism about Martial, need to take a break and look at themselves.
When Rashford played CF earlier this year when we had Martial, Pogba injured he looked far far worse than Martial does.
When you play in a team, there are no runners behind, there is no creativity at all, what do people expect? I tell you what, they expect Martial to produce a world class moment every game to win it. It's not going to happen.
When we get better help and service into Martial, we will 100% be better.
Some people always look at players performances in a vacuum. In reality, this isn't how things work. There are a couple of instances where I think Martial should be doing better, such as his movement, highlighted against Burnley when Andreas put a good pass into the near post where he assumed Martial was going to be, but he had pulled back outside the box. The main problem though is that we don't have enough players that are his quality. The only players around his level are Rashford and Pogba so naturally when they're out, Martial's form will suffer.
People calling for Martial to go or saying he's not good enough in the long term are not seeing that adding more players of his quality is what we need, not get rid of our remaining good players. It's the same with Pogba, miracles are expected in every game because of their quality but when they fail to deliver in every game, due to the incompetence surrounding them, they are hounded.
To add to this, the concept of form seems to have totally gone out the window, players are either brilliant or they are shit depending on their last run of games. I remember RVP going a run of 8 or 9 games without a goal for us before, that didn't make him a bad player, it made him a world class striker who was capable of being inconsistent like almost every world class player player ever. Martial isn't quite world class but I don't think he's far off with a better team around him.
Agreed, these are the people who do not understand the metric of what a good forward is required to do.
How many goals do you think RVP will score in this team? I wouldnt think there would be a difference to what Martial has scored.
If you have players who keep playing the ball to Martial, like when we have him and Rashford playing they play one touch football, he will get goals.
Ofcourse there are areas he needs to improve but without any quality signings, Martial will not be performing miracles.
He certainly wouldn't score as many as he actually did with us with the team we currently have.It depends which Van Persie, you are talking about. The 24 years old version wouldn't be better but the 29 years old version would probably transform our attack, he was creative, strong and lethal around and in the box.
He is an expert at taking up all the wrong spaces when we have the ball in attacking positions.
This. He might as well stand by the corner flag. He's got no idea where a centre forward is supposed to be.