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2022-23 Performances

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30
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We just have to ride it out with him until we get Martial back I guess. He was more clinical in his breakout years so this might just be him being out of form. I hope he realises that his finishing has cost us a few points already this season.
 
El Jefe said:
The cheek of this lad going to EtH saying he wants to be up front. Someone needs to tell him that he's a dreadful striker.

Nowhere near clinical enough and seriously poor with his holdup play. Any game where space in behind is denied he does feck all.

He should be only play on the left. If he doesn't like it he can leave.
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What are you talking about? The reason he is playing striker is because we don't have a striker who is reliable. Whenever Martial plays, Rashford always plays on the left. Rashford has even said himself that he is a left winger.

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I think he did as much with his two chances today as he could. Kepa was already out for the first chance - he was pretty much at the ball when Rashford received it. The second one was not a great chance - it was a good shot, but goalkeepers should be saving from that angle and distance, especially when there is a clear line of sight.
 
El Jefe said:
The cheek of this lad going to EtH saying he wants to be up front. Someone needs to tell him that he's a dreadful striker.

Nowhere near clinical enough and seriously poor with his holdup play. Any game where space in behind is denied he does feck all.

He should be only play on the left. If he doesn't like it he can leave.
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That happened? Think he's playing there out of necessity right now because you know are other options are either walking out during games or just not able to even be there. Hopefully we get someone competent to play there soon but for now we'll just have to grin and bare Rashford up top.
 
Lecland07 said:
What are you talking about? The reason he is playing striker is because we don't have a striker who is reliable. Whenever Martial plays, Rashford always plays on the left. Rashford has even said himself that he is a left winger.

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I think he did as much with his two chances today as he could. Kepa was already out for the first chance - he was pretty much at the ball when Rashford received it. The second one was not a great chance - it was a good shot, but goalkeepers should be saving from that angle and distance, especially when there is a clear line of sight.
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People just make crap up in this thread. Never seen any quotes stating Marcus wants to play up top. Heard lots from Ten Hag about how he sees him as a player though.
 
Didn’t think he was particularly worse than other Caf favourites. Has bought in to the pressing part of the game .
 
MonkeysMagic said:
At this point, I'm willing to play Garnacho up front and move Rashofrd to left. He is not a no.9 and will never be one!
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Would love to see this. I’m confident Garnacho can have a breakthrough season, I just want to see him given a proper chance. Rashford is simply betteras LWF.
 
Not a number 9 and will never be. He's only there because we have no one else so I'll cut him some slack.
 
With someone else on top, we'd possibly won it today. Rashford is left winger and not a striker obviously so I hope we're buying a striker in January because we can't rely on Martial nor Ronaldo.
 
He's got to start scoring. Over the Omonia, Newcastle, Spurs and Chelsea games he's had half a dozen very presentable chances. It's not an excuse that he's not a centre forward. If you give Luis Dias or Son those chances they're goals. Rashford is doing all the off the ball stuff but he's gotta get back to putting the ball in the net.
 
Again pretty decent overall but he needs to start scoring again and put away his chances. Getting a tad annoying now
 
I thought he did well and the chances he had were half chances/created by himself. It'll happen for him, glad to see him looking sharp and playing pretty well personally.
 
He's used to a style of finishing by now, almost like muscle memory. Finding space between the lines, using his pace and running into gaps and then finishing.

As a number 9, he is in unfamiliar territory of being heavily marked, not being able to use his strongest attributes like pace and dribbling and no overlapping support from the full back.

Whenever sir martial decides to come back, rashford on left along with shaw will be the biggest gain
 
He's getting chances, but his finishing is letting him down. He's not being clinical enough. Still, with no other options, he needs to keep playing there.

He had one really good run down the left wing. That's where he should be in an ideal world.
 
Anonymous second half but to be fair the whole team dropped off in the second half.

Just play him from the left please as soon as we have a fit number 9. At the moment it's pretty obvious that he and Antony should be our first choice wingers.
 
We'll never achieve anything as a team if Rashford is our main source of goals. Far too inconsistent and can't be relied upon to finish a chance. This applies whether he's playing on the left or as a 9.
 
Decent display. Getting involved well upfront and links well with Bruno and Antony. Good strike in the first half. When he moved left second half, we had a few chances to put him in space and didn’t take them. Hopefully just taken off for a rest as he’s so vital for us.
 
Had a good game today like Tottenham lacked the finish. It's funny how he's sort of the opposite of Ronaldo. Ronaldo doesn't contribute in the build up / out of possession but can score if given decent chances. Rashford does the other bits to a good standard but can't score. His movement however is what's making him get chances if you notice United don't play the ball into the box, they are neutral around the final third and then look for the killer pass into the striker.

If the team take a little more risk and bombard the box with overloads in numbers as opposed to a singular attacker than the need for a clinical forward diminishes to some extent because the chances are harder to defend. This is again something that Arsenal are doing fairly well neither G.jesus, Saka or Martenelli are clinical but the collective movement to penetrate the 6 yard area is where the goals come.
 
I've been critical of him in the past but I thought he was ok today. Not really sure why some posters are being so harsh.
 
He couldn’t finish his dinner at the moment.

Ronaldo should be starting up front and this guy should be playing Europa. At the end of the season, these misses are going to cost us.
 
Unlike others I actually don't mind him as a striker. I love how he always makes runs behind. Doesn't let his head drop. The problems I see are his heading and hold up play is not good enough to be a starting striker for a club like us. Also I think his finishing can be improved, in fact I think he will under ETH.

Does anyone have his xG for the season so far?
 
Thought he was good. Worked hard, had chances.

Second half, there was less service, so he wasn't as involved.

Looked very frustrated, though. Needs to get his head down and just keep going. The goals will come.

Good to see him regularly challenging for headers as well.
 
Tibs said:
He couldn’t finish his dinner at the moment.

Ronaldo should be starting up front and this guy should be playing Europa. At the end of the season, these misses are going to cost us.
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No way we would have this control or these chances with Ronaldo.

phelans shorts said:
Once he gets a goal he’ll be fine. Give me a player getting chances and missing them over not getting chances any day, that tide will turn.
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Exactly
 
Had to take it around the keeper for that chance, was the only way to score that. Kepa closed him down well. Thought his first half was good but the 2nd half wasn't involved enough.
 
His shots on goal have been the same in the past 3 games. He got into good position, then shoot the ball as hard as he can but theyre easily saved, most of the time its straight into the keeper. Needs to learn how to curve the ball and adding more variations to his finish. Hasnt been bad in my opinion.
 
Dont think he will ever be ruthless in front of goal. Needs a thousand chances to score. Doesn't help in tight games.
 
ayushreddevil9 said:
Dont think he will ever be ruthless in front of goal. Needs a thousand chances to score. Doesn't help in tight games.
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That's the thing. It's not that he can't ever score. He can and has. It's the fact that realistically to progress it is simply not feasible to have a player who is going to eat up a large proportion of chances for an unexceptional return.

His league goals scored has consistently been in and around what we were getting out of each of Giggs, Beckham and Scholes back in the day. But we depended on none of those lads to get on the sheet every week. We expected a contribution over 38 games but our hopes of scoring weren't necessarily pinned on them.

With Rashford, for various reasons, it kind of is and that's a problem.
 
So much knee-jerk.

Rashford has outperformed his xG in four out of the last seven seasons.

Ronaldo, supposedly the most clinical finisher in the world, has outperformed his in three of those seasons. Lewandowski? Four.

Rashford is not a bad finisher. He's just going through what every striker goes through sometimes. He needs a goal to get his confidence back and thus becomes a little overeager and forces the issue when he gets the chance. Completely normal.

His problem as a no. 9 is poor hold-up play and lack of positional awareness in the box. Not poor finishing.
 
He pretty much has 2 types of shots, powerful shot straight at the keeper and a softer attempt where he tried to chip the ball.

Where’s the variety in his shots? It’s easy for defenders and goalkeepers to limit him when he keeps trying the same stuff.
 
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