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2021-22 Performances

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32
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5
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He didn't even press seriously and neither did he sprint back to help with the defense. RR should have taken him off and pushed Greenwood up front with Ronaldo and brought in DVB into midfield.
 
Foxbatt said:
He didn't even press seriously and neither did he sprint back to help with the defense. RR should have taken him off and pushed Greenwood up front with Ronaldo and brought in DVB into midfield.
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Greenwood was already playing up front. What makes Rashford non existent defensive work worse is that he was playing as one of the two wide attacking midfielder
 
Marcus as much as I like him, needs a looong spell on the bench. Should be used as an impact sub an nothing more until he becomes more of a team player. Tried to dribble 5 players everytime he had the ball.
 
pratyush_utd said:
Greenwood was already playing up front. What makes Rashford non existent defensive work worse is that he was playing as one of the two wide attacking midfielder
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It should have been the reverse. Greenwood is a much better passer and can easily switch play, he should have been playing on the right.
 
His numbers improved under Ole but his work rate has fallen off a cliff. Marcus always gave a good shift even if he had a bad games under Lvg and Jose.
 
Very sloppy but you have to ask why he is the one that gets on the ball more consistently than the others to screw it up in the first place. Bruno, Ronaldo, and Greenwood were invisible.
 
Another player who’s status has risen bigger than his talent.

I don’t know when he started sulking but it’s annoying to watch.
 
There’s been a definite decline in his game for a long while. The approach many fans seemed to take was to essentially argue for ages that an assist every three games and a goal every four meant that anyone who thought was wasn’t performing was…a plastic, an idiot, a clueless newbie…etc

But there’s a sizeable contingent of us who think he was shit back then too and it was masked by the stats

This isn’t a blip it’s a damning trend at a time of his career where he should be kicking on and finessing his talents. A 24 year old player who looked markedly better in every way when he was 21/22 isn’t someone going through a ‘blip’. Anyone who thinks that is in denial of the obvious that the whole ‘local lad’ connections has made it taboo to think, or say, for far too long
 
Rashford has been a moments player for quite a long time, it’s just that he hasn’t really had those moments of brilliance recently. His general level of play hasn’t changed all that much I don’t think.
 
Zen86 said:
Rashford has been a moments player for quite a long time, it’s just that he hasn’t really had those moments of brilliance recently. His general level of play hasn’t changed all that much I don’t think.
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100%. I think his overall contribution now is worse than when he was 19. At least then he worked hard and was fearless. If the first few times he stepped onto the pitch he played like he has these last 12 months he’d have been released and spent the last few years being a regular for Stockport County

His extra curricular activities ARE a distraction but only in the sense they distract from the conversation that his performances have nothing to do with ‘Marcus Radishford’ and everything to do with the fact he’s ‘developing’ into a poor football player
 
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please leave my fecking club you’re a disgrace to the jersey . The end.
 
When's the last time Marcus Rashford had a good game? Not outstanding, not MoTM, not any of that. Just a good game.
Answer that and you will quickly realize how standards have dropped at this club.
 
Terrible performance, but in addition to Cavani, looked the only one who carried a threat. His strike partner was worse in every sense of the word
 
He’s been awful this season and yesterday was up there with one of his worst games.

I get that maybe Rangnick wants his pace to stretch the game but i would put more faith in Elanga at this moment in time, some of the basic mistakes he was making like when he kicked it out for their goal kick when he wasn’t really under pressure made me cringe.

Will he get back the form he had before his back and shoulder injuries? Who knows but right now he needs to be dropped.
 
He’s not a 90 minutes player that’s for sure. Does about 1 or 2 good things a game and frustrates the hell out of you for the rest with his dire decision making and lack of effort. Been like that for a good 2 years now. We need to seriously move on. If Martial has been exiled then why is Rashford still stinking the place up every week? These guys just aren’t good enough to take us forward and can’t be relied on.
 
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There was a 10-15 minute period in the second half where he was starting to look better and things were starting to work for him. For the rest of the match before and after that though he was terrible.
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Yeah, there was glimpses of what he’s capable of last night. Dunno if that’s encouraging or just a depressing reminder of how far he’s fallen.
 
Drop him till he figures himself out.

How in the feck is he a 10 minute player who offers little threat and no movement, from a player who everyone used to say they were terrified of.

It's pathetic how bad some players have been allowed to get.
 
It's not his fault exactly, but I'm so sick of seeing him stay on the pitch after doing nothing when others are hooked at half-time.

At some point we have to look past the fact that he is home-grown and likeable, and look at the actual footballer. He is not good enough to be a starter if we want to challenge for anything. It is a shame, because he has the physical and technical gifts, but everything else is lacking.
 
His attitude is a disgrace. Watch him on Newcastle’s offside goal, he clearly doesn’t give a shit. How he still starts games is beyond me.
 
Probably our worst player yesterday. Baffling that he stays on.

Having him and Bruno on the pitch with their current form is just destroying our attacking play. The choices and passes is just ridiculously bad.

Rash is also extremely egotistical, and that's fine for a top quality attacker, but the exact opposite for Rash.
 
It's like hes modelled himself on all of Ronaldos dislikeable traits and ignored all the ones that made him one of the greatest players ever. Sell him.
 
I don't think he's ever been the same since he broke his back.

That being said I don't think the early promise of Rashford will ever be the player we imagined he would turn out.
 
As I've said previously in this thread: I think the back injury has robbed him of his agility and explosiveness from a standing start, but the biggest concern of all with Rashford for me is that he either has no understanding of the team game, or he's not interested in it outside of a few link-ups per game. This is something that should improve season upon season for any player, but instead, as his physical ailments have worsened, he's gone backwards in this aspect as well, as he's trying to overcompensate and make even more solo/yolo runs now.

He tends to pass or cross as a last resort or because he's run out of space to continue a dribble; he rarely passes to players who are in better positions than him first and foremost and it's both maddening and concerning because there is no excuse for it. Players lose bits of their physical prowess all the time, particularly extremely fast wingers and forwards, but they adapt and change how they play, Rashford isn't even trying to do that and it doesn't seem like anyone at the club is forcing him to, either, and that, over anything else, should not be allowed to continue as he's detrimental to the team and kills so many attacks by not having any wits about him.

We have a number of players who do not see team-mates as foils - this is not a Rashford-only problem, but he is, without a doubt, the worst for it because he'd rather run down blind alleys than pass the ball, and he does it frequently enough for it to be something every single person watching him can be aware of and expect. That also means he is really easy for opposition managers to plan for and use an exploit to get at us, because on top of that blind alley running, when dispossessed, he is not bursting blood vessels trying to win the ball back, to the contrary, he'll stand there like it's not his job or responsibility to get that ball back, which usually leads to carries of over 40-50 yards up the pitch before that player or bunch of players face any impedance whatsoever.

At the moment, he's not just an offensive disaster - he's a complete defensive liability as well.
 
As bad as he's been it's pretty silly to play him in the role he had yesterday. He's in now way suited to a deeper position.
 
He has regressed as a football over the last couple of years and if he every recovers, it will be a very long way back.
 
Fortitude said:
As I've said previously in this thread: I think the back injury has robbed him of his agility and explosiveness from a standing start, but the biggest concern of all with Rashford for me is that he either has no understanding of the team game, or he's not interested in it outside of a few link-ups per game. This is something that should improve season upon season for any player, but instead, as his physical ailments have worsened, he's gone backwards in this aspect as well, as he's trying to overcompensate and make even more solo/yolo runs now.

He tends to pass or cross as a last resort or because he's run out of space to continue a dribble; he rarely passes to players who are in better positions than him first and foremost and it's both maddening and concerning because there is no excuse for it. Players lose bits of their physical prowess all the time, particularly extremely fast wingers and forwards, but they adapt and change how they play, Rashford isn't even trying to do that and it doesn't seem like anyone at the club is forcing him to, either, and that, over anything else, should not be allowed to continue as he's detrimental to the team and kills so many attacks by not having any wits about him.

We have a number of players who do not see team-mates as foils - this is not a Rashford-only problem, but he is, without a doubt, the worst for it because he'd rather run down blind alleys than pass the ball, and he does it frequently enough for it to be something every single person watching him can be aware of and expect. That also means he is really easy for opposition managers to plan for and use an exploit to get at us, because on top of that blind alley running, when dispossessed, he is not bursting blood vessels trying to win the ball back, to the contrary, he'll stand there like it's not his job or responsibility to get that ball back, which usually leads to carries of over 40-50 yards up the pitch before that player or bunch of players face any impedance whatsoever.

At the moment, he's not just an offensive disaster - he's a complete defensive liability as well.
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The weirdest thing is that he had actually started to develop some playmaking skills at the end of that fantastic run of form that ended up with his back injury. Now it seems like that was a completely different player, even though it should be impossible to lose your football vision. Maybe he only did it when he had felt that he was on top of his game and was comfortable experimenting with his skillset while now he doesn't (justifiably so) feel as confident and tries to stick to what he does best... except that it doesn't seem to work either.

It does look like he had lost some of that agility and explosiveness that he's had earlier on as you've said, one would've hoped that the surgery would deal with it but it doesn't seem to be the case.
 
slored1 said:
Marcus as much as I like him, needs a looong spell on the bench. Should be used as an impact sub an nothing more until he becomes more of a team player. Tried to dribble 5 players everytime he had the ball.
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He was also waiting for the ball instead of going to the ball.
 
Glorio said:
Terrible performance, but in addition to Cavani, looked the only one who carried a threat. His strike partner was worse in every sense of the word
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When his strike partner was making good runs, Marcus could't lay a decent through ball to him. I hoping Ronaldo and Cavani start next match along with Donny and Sancho.
 
Similarly to Bruno, he needs to get benched. I don't get how our managers tend to think of him as an undisputed starter. We have other options, use them. Rashford has nothing to force ourselves to make him a permanent starter no matter what his form.
 
harms said:
The weirdest thing is that he had actually started to develop some playmaking skills at the end of that fantastic run of form that ended up with his back injury. Now it seems like that was a completely different player, even though it should be impossible to lose your football vision. Maybe he only did it when he had felt that he was on top of his game and was comfortable experimenting with his skillset while now he doesn't (justifiably so) feel as confident and tries to stick to what he does best... except that it doesn't seem to work either.

It does look like he had lost some of that agility and explosiveness that he's had earlier on as you've said, one would've hoped that the surgery would deal with it but it doesn't seem to be the case.
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They day people revert to type under duress and I think the expansive elements he was adding to his game have been locked away hopefully temporarily as he's very much a head down, run by yourself like you're the best on the playground type of player at the moment and I think his way of digging himself out of that mental hole is try the same things even more intently and it seems to be consuming him.

But having your body nof work as you're used to is alarming at any age, let alone in a young pro, so I can't help but wonder how many demons he's fending off right now.

My feeling is he needs solid nurturing and coaching more than anything else right now; I refuse to believe he should be defined by athleticism when, even now, if he had a modicum of awareness, the amount of plays he could progress by passing at the right time is astronomical and that's in this depleted individual state.

I would find it incredulous if he's just being left to his own devices, which, to how he plays game in and game out, it would look like to an outsider he is.
 
Not the same since the back issues. Maybe that injury is a career-ender for him, at least as a top player. He looks pretty awful. Decision making is still bad.

That left-footed shot in the 2nd half made me want to throw my remote at the TV.
 
I don’t think he was ever the most intelligent player but compensated by explosive pace and the fact he was willing to work hard. The fact he hasn’t developed the basics of his game is a worry.

Someone with his experience should not be running into blind alleys as a default. These things really aren’t a high bar for any decent player to overcome. The fact he is struggling in this and other areas is concerning and I think it’s ridiculous to think these elements that haven’t manifest over the first 300 games of his career will suddenly turn up overnight.

Okay he MIGHT miraculously get better at everything he’s shit at magically but surely were at the point now where nobody actually has any expectation of it happening. We need to be open to the increasing possibility that this is the finished article or very close to it
 
There was one moment where the ball broke beautifully for him, and all he had to do was send it 10 yards to the left to either Bruno or Ronaldo in acres.

Instead he whacked it way too hard, neither could keep it out, and Ronaldo looked absolutely furious.

Getting quite nervous with Rashy these days, as he's had the benefit for the doubt for being average/poor for half a year due to clearly playing with injuries, but needs to show he can cut it here still.
The way he's headed is to a West Ham/Everton type starter.
 
I've always maintained Rashford is at his best when United play on a counter. He needs space to utilise his speed. He's a lost soul when he's played when United have the majority of the ball with the opposition having all of their players behind the ball.
 
He’s been utter garbage since his return, how he keeps getting starts I’ll never know. I know none of our attackers have set the world alight lately but give me Greenwood or Sancho over him any day at the moment.
 
Some of us were clued in enough to point all this out this time last year and took months of shit for it. This is where the team is headed if you keep relying on him. A team thats set up to maximise this guy in every game is going to be battling for top 4 if they are lucky, nothing more.
 
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