Its the subtle movements in the box that matter. Only on replays do you acknowledge his intelligence even more.
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Even without the goals and the assist, his pressing is unvaluable from up front to annoy their DMs and their CBs
His movements in the box..wow. Seeing this only after Ibra in united shirt.
He comes from Uruguay, now just imagine if he’d manage make the scousers cry as well this season. His movement and anticipation is top class, exactly what we need in so many situations
So this is what it's like to have a striker up front.
But people wanted “Ighalo every day of the week.” 
No chance, we don’t have another player in the squad in that mould.
Don’t get me wrong Martial, Rashford, Greenwood are all very capable but they’re totally different types of players, none of them could have scored either of those goals in that way.
Cavani's energy, workrate and movement is fantastic. He's kept himself in extremely good shape. Great professionalism.
No wonder Scholes was screaming we don't need sancho, we need a proper CF.
Cavani is in his prime years. He is a fitness maniac and thoroughly professional. He is the best in-box striker in the world. Shrewd move. I believe it was Ole choice (obvious reasons)
What a beast. Could have scored 4
Yep and remember when peoplewere comparing him to Falcao?
No one in the squad is scoring those type of goals he scored today.
This lad is mental. Today was close to Van Persie type impact from 12/13 season, if I remember correctly, also against Soton, the dirty lumber twats.
Beautiful header though
The thing is we hoped for the same thing when Zlatan joined, we hoped that Martial would learn from him and develop to be a bit more like a classic number 9. It didn't happen. Martial's play style seems natural and instincive, kinda hard expecting him to change it. He is no Zlatan, RvP, Cavani and probably never will.
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Didn't even go nuts when he scored. Been there, done that
So happy with that, looking more Zlatan than Falcao.
No one else in the team would have made those runs for his goals. Got an assist too for Bruno's too
Watch and learn Anthony.
Watch and learn Anthony.
@Raoul Might just be me but noticed this thread doesn't have the goal + assist profile banner? Any chance you can help.
Surely now Ole will see the difference it makes when we play with a proper Centre Forward instead of Martial.
Let Rashford and Martial fight it out to play out wide and keep a real number 8 in the middle
Let Rashford and Martial fight it out to play out wide and keep a real number 8 in the middle
Outstanding, could of had a bag full today. Looking good for the rest of the season now.
He's one of those players that always popped up in the "I've never seen him play well threads" but he's been world class for 5+ years now and he showed that today.
Head like an isosceles triangle.
Front 3 with Greenwood and Cavani being two of them needs to be given a proper go
Love him to bits. No other player in our squad could dream of goals like this. Perfect movement in the box
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Hard to disagree with this. Big fan of Martial but I don’t see him or anyone else making those runs for those headers.
Different dimension of player and a great option to have but not our future.
His movement and alertness in the box is incredible.
Such on thay fat F resident caf fitness and calibre experts.
It's natural instinct. Not sure you can learn that
Martial or Rashford as striker today and this would have ended 2-0 to Southampton.
Edinson fecking Cavani !! No questions. He saved us today.
They announced they weren't renewing his contract but they did the same for Thiago Silva (I know he was more central to their plans) and they worked out something for him to stay on, I can't believe that Tuchel would rather have had to use Choupo-Moting in the semis and the final than Cavani but maybe that's wrong of me. The main thing for us is that he looks really sharp and motivated (which is the player I had always seen him as which is why I was concerned that maybe that had gone slightly) and a real asset to our team.
His movement is arguably best in the world, at least at his peak he was relentless and up there with the best in the world.
The goals he scored, none of our other strikers would have scored, not because they lack finishing, it's because they don't gamble and make that movement.
The goals he scored, none of our other strikers would have scored, not because they lack finishing, it's because they don't gamble and make that movement.
Think I'm in love and here I thought I was straight.
Been at the club 5 minutes and already gives the impression he cares more, and is prepared to work more than most
He looks very hungry, hopefully we'll keep him as fit as possible till the end of the season, make Martial finally work harder or replace him soon because, this is simply what we were lacking, hold up play, pressing from up front, killer instincts in the box.
We know Martial is more of a playmaker rather than a classic no9 but doesn't justify his lack of effort off the ball and even lazy kind of effort with the ball, not making any runs, lazy dribbling and easy loss of possession.
Cavani can open our eyes and he only came from a top flight "retirement"..
Happy for us and the bloke, seems like a genuienely nice person
We know Martial is more of a playmaker rather than a classic no9 but doesn't justify his lack of effort off the ball and even lazy kind of effort with the ball, not making any runs, lazy dribbling and easy loss of possession.
Cavani can open our eyes and he only came from a top flight "retirement"..
Happy for us and the bloke, seems like a genuienely nice person
Yup.
Rashy/Tony - Cavani - Greenwood
Then Greenwood to take over from Cavani next season.
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