Couldn't finish his fecking dinner, this guy. It's a fascinating contest between him Lukaku to see who is more hopeless and terrified when they face a keeper one-on-one.
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Yet another 1 v 1 missed, zero composure when he's through. Takes a bad touch to drift wide then slams straight into the keeper.
Let's hope for our sake he takes the chances which drop his way in the derby.
Let's hope for our sake he takes the chances which drop his way in the derby.
No one is defending Sanchez on this forum though, we all agree he's shite.
Yet Rashford has a huge following on Redcafe who either think he's class or will be one day. They are incorrect.
It's all gone a bit Welbeck.
I still like him as a player, but he can't lead the line.
I still like him as a player, but he can't lead the line.
He really needs to work on his finishing, it’s going to cost us big time sooner or later.
crap finish
Get's into the right places often and has got all the assets to be successful, but his composure needs working on in 1 v 1's. Martial missed a chance similar to that as well, you just have to pick yourself up and get on the training pitch to work it out.
Makes the right runs and has good movement.
The goals will come.
The goals will come.
Like the lad, but he's not clinical enough to be furthest man forward. Not right now at least. Doesn't give the impression that he'll ever be a deadeye in front of goal, but just recently he's been head down and and hit it, stinks of low confidence - he's definitely better in front of goal than his last few one-on-ones suggest.
He got into a good position at the end, but he really should have scored.
He’s young, though, so still plenty of time to learn.
He’s young, though, so still plenty of time to learn.
Added a lot of dynamism through the middle I felt, wish he could have bagged that chance right near the end.
Needs a few games but gives that direct threat, needs lessons from Martial in not giving a f*ck and staying calm in front of goal
His problem has nothing to do with confidence.
It's strange he always goes for power. From the moment he went 1 on 1 I knew he wouldn't score because we've come to know his finishing isn't consistent.
Just seems to panic. Like many have said here, he seems to smash every finishing opportunity he gets.
He's too English, is not improving mentally at all in 2 years. Same old fecking shit.
Don't think he panicked at all. He's a good shooter but he's not a very intelligent player. Had he just looked at Szczesny he could have finished it better but he kept his head down and seemingly had already decided where to put the ball. He prefers power over finesse which isn't what a good finisher does.
Welbeck was the pposite when it comes to finishing, he tried to lift every ball and never power it
He didn't panic at the weekend when he coolly finished to win us 3 points.
Yes, he should have scored when clean through, but over reactions seem to be a thing here
Yes, he should have scored when clean through, but over reactions seem to be a thing here
He needs to be in the position martial is, in the sense that he knows he's a starter.
He will score goals if he gets matches, I'd be more worried if he wasn't working his way to get chances.
He will score goals if he gets matches, I'd be more worried if he wasn't working his way to get chances.
When he first broke through he was clinical and clever.
As soon as he got that muscles, he became more and more like Cristiano wannabe. Power over finesse and that's not good Marcus.
What I like is Rashford off the movement and get to good shooting position, if he is not going for power, use finesse, he'd be a deadly scorer. Ronaldo and Kane improved themselves in finishing around 22-23 then become one of the top scorers. I hope he can improve himself otherwive he'd become Welbeck.
He hasn't been good enough to warrant that. You can't play poorly week in and week out (month after month) and get rewarded for it.
If you wanna unlock the next level, not looking where to shoot and smashing it hard isn't good enough. I like the kid's will to hurt the other team with his powerful shots but without composure and precision, he's rendering himself useless
He has lost his killer instinct
His movement and pace are still decent. However, he got the finishing tough of freaking Lingard in 2015-2016 season... Get more clinical, and he has potential to be an English Thomas Muller in good days.
God, don't turn into welbeck in front of goal. He has to improve and improve quick. He needs a coach.
Good to see he finally used his pace properly. Against Bournemouth he lost a footrace against Ake because he fumbled the ball and never got momentum, and we've seen that quite a few times. When he goes for a footrace he is either outmuscled because he isn't clever enough to get away from the defender, or his touch lets him down. Yesterday, Martial accelerated away from his defender (he is flying when he bothers to) and then Rashford was left with some space that he finally exploited properly. It was a terrible shot on goal though. The goalie goes down ealy leaving that far corner wide open - terrible finishing. On the bright side, he got into that position!
This. He has a knack to consistently get himself into scoring opportunities, which is a huge asset for someone aspiring to be a striker. The problem is he has no variety or cleverness about finishing those opportunities. If he can learn to finish without always smashing it, he can make a drastic leap in goal output but he really has a lot of work to do.
Not the first time that he makes the mistake of narrowing the angle so that the goalkeeper gets an easier job, though given how often he's used as a wide player I'm not sure why people expect him to be clinical up front.
Almost seems like he's been told to be "decisive" and interpreted that as trying to his force his way through everything. You see that in his dribbling, he just puts his head down and tries to go past players as if he was Martial, and often overlooks teammates in other positions. The same with his shooting, just tries to smash everything as hard as he can. He had a lot more variety and finesse to his overall game when he first came into the team, and it's sad to think he's regressed as a player in the last three years.
Couldn't have said it better. His biggest problem in football is that he never looks up. Everything about him seems instinctive. He's not composed.
Think he does that cause he wants to lace the thing. Easier to take a laced shot from an angle.
I hope he's not that thick as a player.
I would still love to build the team around a mobile front 3, Rashford, Martial and Sanchez, allowing them to interchange positions and have more freedom up front.
He always wants to go across the face of goal into the far corner. He has no other finish, i think he thinks taking it wide moves the keeper so he has more space to aim for. People think he was clinical because he scored the first couple but now keepers know they just need to leave a leg out and they'll save it.
The net result (no pun intended) was the same - missed chances.
Would you say a player has to be clinical to bury the chance yesterday and the open goal one vs Bournemouth? I think he could easily score both with a cooler head, without necessarily being a clinical player. Those are huge chances, both of them.
Martial is clinical, he’s scored a lot of goals for us from much more difficult positions under a lot more pressure from defenders. Maybe because he has a plan for scoring from those positions, or maybe just because he manages to keep calm. Anyway, Rashford should take note, because one thing that sticks from his last, I’d say handful of games, is that he keeps getting into goal scoring opportunities.
I rewatched the goal from the Bournemouth game, because someone on here said he did well to create space, and I was to busy celebrating at the time to notice, but it’s true, his movement before was truly excellent. I think he has to work on himself, and try to be smarter in those situations. The time is now though, the young and learning only goes so far, and he has a lot of games under his belt so far in his short career.
Got to agree with this. When he receives the ball he never looks up and misses wide open team mates. When he's dribbling, his head is down and so he ends up running up blind alleys or straight into defenders or out of touch. When he's finishing he rarely seems to check the goalkeepers position. Just terrible awareness all around. The other tools are there; physical, technique is decent but the game IQ is very poor.
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