laughtersassassin
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I love Martial but give Greenwood his minutes for the next two games at least. See where that gets us
I thought he was pretty good except for that absolute sitter he missed. Has to be finishing those. Poor lad was probably in shock that Rashford passed the ball. However big moments like that he needs to finish as inevitably that’s what people will remember and what you’ll be judged on. It was almost criminal that he fluffed that.
As should be the case, like you eluded to you cannot play against a team like PSG for Man Utd and miss chances like them
It was a reminder to the chance he fluffed at Anfield last season as well and those in the knock out rounds of the EL last season. When the pressure is on unfortunately Martial isn't one to be counted on
Agreed on both accounts.
His all-round play has been improving lately. In his last three games he had a fairly good 20 minutes against West Brom, a decent 45 minutes against Basaksehir, and now he was decent for about 60 minutes or so today. So he's definitely playing better than he was at the beginning of the season. Unfortunately that hasn't translated to his finishing where he is still struggling massively.
I am fed up of him. And everything is down to Ole for having played him when we knew that he is out of form
I feel because he had the whole "Martial FC" thing at the beginning of his United career, which was nothing to do with him, he gets criticized a lot harsher than most of our players. He badly needs a goal without a doubt, his finishing has been really poor this season but his play has been good in several games.
He really doesn’t, he has a loyal following who see the player he can be, but we don’t get to see that player very often.
I think Mourinho will ultimately be proven right about Martial (and Pogba). He's just not good enough to start for a team that wants to win things or aims to be in the latter stages of the Champions League.
As should be the case, like you eluded to you cannot play against a team like PSG for Man Utd and miss chances like them
It was a reminder to the chance he fluffed at Anfield last season as well and those in the knock out rounds of the EL last season. When the pressure is on unfortunately Martial isn't one to be counted on
Thing is we’ve seen him do it in clutch situations before. Cavani through out his career for example misses a bucket load of chances and good oppertunities, Lewandowski, Zlatan, Rashford all the same so what do we do. Things like that happen.
Yeah, makes you wonder how come we have 3 strikers in such poor form at the same time.Thing is, we don't know if benching him can do worse or whether he needs to play himself into form. It's fine to "carry" if other strikers are ruthless but Greenwood himself missed an open net vs Southampton. Cavani will need to start if Martial does I feel, just to balance it out.
However I wonder if Cavani will be benched just to keep in good condition for Leipzig.
He's not improved a single bit since he first came here.
Classic knee jerk now. He's been shit to start the season. He was excellent last season. He's been a brilliant finisher for 4 years, but the last few months can't score to save his life. It's a bad run. Calm the feck down people. He'll get out of it and get back in good form. Saying you want him gone is hilarious as it is idiotic, he's a very good player who while he might not be an automatic pick as our striker, can certainly be part of the group of main 4 to rotate for the front 3. Rashford, Martial, Greenwood, Cavani, and then post Cavani possibly Haaland if we're lucky. He's capable of being brilliant, but right now is probably going through the worst period in his career.
Bruh, Zlatan missed chance after chance when he was at United. Cavani made scoring wonder goals look easy compared to the amount of sitters he misses all through out his career from Palermo to Napoli to PSG.They do happen but there's absolutely ZERO comparison between Cavani, Lewa and Zlatan missing chances and Martial's inconsistency and chance fluffery! ZERO.
But the problem is he’s a centre forward,
His finishing was one thing that stood out for me, even when he first joined he was great at finishing off chances. But since the end of last season and now, he's been woeful at it! I don't know if its a mental thing or an ability thing but i'm just fed up of waiting for him to come good 6 years in. Sell in the summer and get an upgrade.