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2018-19 Performances

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5.4 Season Average Rating
Appearances
47
Goals
13
Assists
8
Yellow cards
6
Red cards
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On the bright side, he did try to finally chip the keeper instead of smashing it as usual, it's a little variety that his finishing desperately requires. He needs a lot of work, and I don't think United is the best environment for him to develop mainly because he's under extreme scrutiny, and the attention from the media and the pressure of the club's season along with Mourinho's own self-contructed additional pressure is not great for a kid that needs to get repetition up front to develop his finishing.

He doesn't look like someone who's anywhere close to being a good finisher, but he has an undisputed quality to find himself in the right place, at the right time, and making good runs. Everything else is average to bad but just that quality is so important that if he can improve his finishing, he will be a player that's worth keeping an eye on.

PepsiCola said:
All great youngsters were first given allowance to find form, and when they play badly they're allowed time to play through it.

It's naive to think otherwise. Youngsters are all inconsistent. If you watch PSG enough you'll see Mbappe puts in poor 90 minutes, but is given allowance to play through it (helps he's in a poorer league).

We're far from a title winning side anyway. Many of us would have had Rashford over Sterling before Pep and Mourinho arrived. Look what consistent game time and faith did for sterling. We just had the worst possible coach come in.
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Mbappe rarely has a full 90 minutes of poor game, I can count them on one severed hand since the start of his career. He's built himself far more credit to deserve that, Rashford hasn't.
 
I think i'd like to see him under a different manager. Both he and Martial were the only bright sparks of LVG's final season and neither have played consistently well under Jose.

I guess the worrying thing is that you can persist with 'potential' for so long and it never comes to much for whatever reason (see Walcott, Wilshere, Welbeck, Jones etc). Rashford is still only 20 though.
 
PepsiCola said:
All great youngsters were first given allowance to find form, and when they play badly they're allowed time to play through it.
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A blanket statement like that is not really true. Some youngsters get it, some don't. Either one should be exceptionally talented or the team should be in such a good form that they can allow a youngster to play and work through bad form.
 
His decision making for final pass or finish was off but apart from that glhe had good game. He was very lively and full of energy, his movement was very good and he stretched team by moving to channels. Very promising performance. Finishing will improve, he is rushing into things and he is playing as if he will be dropped if he doesn't score.

Much better performance than what Lukaku offers week in week out. We even kept the ball in ground and played nice short passes between him, Martial and Lingard.

He will be dropped for the weekend game which is a shame.
 
Rash is fine. Needs improvement like everyone else. However, I believe the number 1 problem is a lack of confidence. He's so anxious and just snatches at chances.

There's big pressure to play at United, but the reaction of his manager to his miss was so cynical and over the top, and unfair considering Lukaku has done far worst, that I cannot imagine how he behaves behind closed doors.

Sport is not just about the physical aspects, it's very much mental as well. Rash knows that if he doesn't get those goals his arse is back on the bench. His manager will start getting snidey. That's not the environment to get the best out of him or any other young player.
 
Came out of the oven under Van Gaal much much too early. There is still work to be done on his game, I'd like to see him get more starts up front to grow a portfolio of confidence to move forward. Can understand Lukaku going back in though. I like his mentality and hunger to continue to try and improve. Rewards will come.
 
^Mourinho: supporter of youth. :rolleyes:
 
He has to show some quality in front of the goal. He has been given a lot of chances and need to make use of it. Still think he needs to go out on loan to a lesser club to know the value of a good chance.
 
Mourinho must really believe Rashford will turn out to be a sensational player, for him not to hook Rashford in this game. If it had been up to me, Rashford would have been out at halftime.
 
He should have done better with some the positions he found himself in last night and with the 1 v 1... but I’d be more annoyed with his performance if he wasn’t frequently finding himself in these positions.

He was working hard and giving everything but the decision making or execution just wasn’t there. It bothers me much less than Lukaku is far lazier, gives less to the team and still missed chances when they arrive.

When we watch United, the microscope is on and every little moment is analysed to death. Players are expected to put in a near perfect performance, never miss a chance etc. None of that is realistic... and especially not for a young player. Going back some years ago, I’d imagine you’d see a deluge of posts bemoaning Ronaldo’s lack of end product for us.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
He's so low on confidence.

He's snatching at all his chances and clearly isn't backing himself to score, as he does in an England shirt.

It's almost as if he's constantly worried about his final pass/shot, knowing that his manger is just waiting to slag him off when it goes wrong.

And what happens when he misses his first chance? Does Jose encourage? Does he feck... Shakes his head like he's just ruined our entire chances of winning the game.
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Confidence has little to do with it. It might add or take a bit away but this is the norm for Rashford. The first few games under LVG were the exception. He's just not got the strikers instinct to play as a striker for a top club. We need to work on him being a wide forward or a winger if he's to have a future here. We can't afford to have him keep missing golden chances.
 
Forgetting the chances, I thought he was lively for us. He was moving, getting into good spaces. Id rather he play the next game over Lukaku though.
 
People praising his movement and sharpness :lol::lol:

He's as bad as Matic now. Needs to be rested.
 
He needs run of games as a CF though. You can't expect to play him as winger (left and right) and then all of a sudden play him as a #9 and expect consistent performance.

Since Jose took over, is mins as CF (from transfermarkt)
2016-17 - 1326 mins - 6 goals + 2 assists (165 mins per G+A)
2017-18 - 1190 mins - 6 goals + 2 assists (148 mins per G+A)
2018-19 - 239 mins - 1 goal

Hopefully he will get run of games as a striker.
 
Lam said:
People praising his movement and sharpness :lol::lol:

He's as bad as Matic now. Needs to be rested.
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Not a right lot else to praise really. His movement is good though, he's not perfect by any means but it's very clear we play better when our striker actually moves, be it Rashford or Sanchez.
 
el3mel said:
I have seen enough of Rashford to know that he'll end up being a squad player at best and will never achieve what the fans expected from him when he started. Another Welbeck/Walcott..etc. Simply your typical English young talent.
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I'm starting to think that comparison is a little unfair on Welbeck. At times he couldn't hit a barn door in front of goal but he was still useful down the left with his pace and energy.
 
Still think he has the talent to play for us long term. Just don't think it will be as the main striker as he doesn't have the composure. His best abilities are his movement, direct running and his ability to strike a ball. Just watch him play for England and you can see the sort of impact he can have.
 
ZupZup said:
He should have done better with some the positions he found himself in last night and with the 1 v 1... but I’d be more annoyed with his performance if he wasn’t frequently finding himself in these positions.

He was working hard and giving everything but the decision making or execution just wasn’t there. It bothers me much less than Lukaku is far lazier, gives less to the team and still missed chances when they arrive.

When we watch United, the microscope is on and every little moment is analysed to death. Players are expected to put in a near perfect performance, never miss a chance etc. None of that is realistic... and especially not for a young player. Going back some years ago, I’d imagine you’d see a deluge of posts bemoaning Ronaldo’s lack of end product for us.
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100% this.
 
Lam said:
People praising his movement and sharpness :lol::lol:

He's as bad as Matic now. Needs to be rested.
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His movement was superb in the first half, hence why he got into so many good positions.

Of course it means nothing if you can't find the finish or the right pass which has been the case for Rashford for about 18 months if we are being honest (barring a few games).
 
11101 said:
I'm starting to think that comparison is a little unfair on Welbeck. At times he couldn't hit a barn door in front of goal but he was still useful down the left with his pace and energy.
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Jesus Christ man.
 
11101 said:
Sorry but Rashford has been worse recently than i ever remember Welbeck being.
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Your memory is not very good then.

More to the point, he actually was, literally, the only bright attacking spark last night. I'm honestly baffled that so many people have piled in on him because he missed a couple of chances.

Clearly he needs to improve his end product, but I agree with the poster above suggesting it's confidence rather than technique, but, God, it's depressing after that awful performance logging on to Redcafe and seeing fans fallling over themselves to criticise the only attacking player who actually looked to try and get on the ball and hurt the opposition (with a fair amount of success at times) whilst praising Fellaini's abysmal performance because he bundled in a winner off his hand after stinking up the joint for 92 minutes.

If that's genuinely people's take home from the game then United fans deserve every second of shit football we get.
 
He ran into channels, moved more than Lukaku for sure which freed up some space. However he lacks the end product which is finishing unfortunately.
 
Take away Rashford's four months under van Gaal and he's been nothing but disappointing. When he first broke through, he had a nice touch, neat interplay and his game was based on efficiency, he didn't do anything beyond what he was capable of.

Now he's just a speed merchant, that thinks he has the ability to play like neymar. The welbeck and walcott comparisons are looking clearer by the day but even those two realised their dribbling limitations while Rashford continues to run into blind alleys.

Extremely overrated.
 
He should not be starting games for United. I love him but that miss yesterday is not good enough. We need someone up top that will gobble up chances like that. I’m not saying Lukaku can do that because even he can’t. I’m just saying I don’t think we are good enough. The football yesterday was so bad I had to actually remind myself we were playing a team that had their whole spine missing. It’s starting to get embarrassing. The feeling was last night we would win by a few goals. Mate, it reminds me of LVG
 
He could have swopped martial and Rashford at half time and we mightn’t had to wait til the 90th minute to score.
 
Anyone who blames his extremely poor finishing or his even worse decision making on the manager needs to have a word with themselves. It makes no sense whatsoever for Mourinho to simultaneously have Rashford play as many games as he has done and at the same time be a negative influence on his confidence and ultimately his performances. That Mourinho was visably very dissappointed when Rashford missed a 1v1 for the fiftyeleventh time in a row is hardly an indication of how much pressure he puts on the kid, it's more a completely natural reaction to a poor effort that everyone has unfortunately become used to.
 
Rashford looks much better playing for england, in a better coached team.
sure he misses chances but so does every forward. We are much better with him than with Lukaku.

Lineker got it spot on for me last night, when he said he wouldnt be happy if any manager did that to him when he missed a chance. This is a world cup golden boot winner who was relatively placid and he has the hump with mourinhos antics.
So what would a youngster like Rashford be going thinking. Cant be great for his confidence.

So how can a serial "loser" like southgate get a much better performance out of Rashford than the often reminded Serial winner Mourinho?
 
Decision making isn't something that imprves drastically over the course of a player career. It's not going from trash to world class when he gets older. Best we hope for is it improves from trash to decent so that he becomes more valuable as a squad option, which is the best he'll achieve here.
 
NinjaFletch said:
Your memory is not very good then.

More to the point, he actually was, literally, the only bright attacking spark last night. I'm honestly baffled that so many people have piled in on him because he missed a couple of chances.

Clearly he needs to improve his end product, but I agree with the poster above suggesting it's confidence rather than technique, but, God, it's depressing after that awful performance logging on to Redcafe and seeing fans fallling over themselves to criticise the only attacking player who actually looked to try and get on the ball and hurt the opposition (with a fair amount of success at times) whilst praising Fellaini's abysmal performance because he bundled in a winner off his hand after stinking up the joint for 92 minutes.

If that's genuinely people's take home from the game then United fans deserve every second of shit football we get.
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People are not piling on him because he missed a couple of chances last night. They're piling on him because he misses a couple of chances every single game.

His matches usually go the same way. He's got decent movement and he likes to use his pace, but hes not particularly good at dribbling and any time he gets anywhere dangerous he runs down blind alleys or fluffs the pass/shot. He costs us 2 or 3 good chances every time he plays and in the state we're in we can't afford that. Welbeck was exactly the same but SAF knew to put him wide and use the things he was good at. Mourinho can't get anything out of Rashford out wide but we can't persist with him as a striker.
 
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