Absolutely shit and always has been, no purple patches can disguise how fvcking bang average he is over the course of a season, Garnacho offers so much more threat every time he’s on the pitch. The fact he’s seemingly immune from being dropped is worrying and don’t reflect too greatly on ETH at all
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Lost his way this season. Sad to see. So much of our supposed plan of being a half decent side relies upon Rashford being somewhere near his best. Our best spells in recent years have been when he is scoring goals. Most top teams require one of those players - a physically elite forward who can go past defenders, run in behind and put up centre forward numbers from left or right. We’re definitely not getting that from Antony on the other side, Rashford is our guy, and with him on this form we are incredibly blunt.
Both are true actually. He looked nonplussed going on to the pitch and then smiled when he hugged McTominay.
I don't think it's worth reading too much into it.q
Where do people get this lack of confidence from? He has had 31 shots at goal, only Haland has had more (32). He regularly dribbles every game, even today he had at least 4/5 dribbles.
So I ask again; why do you people say he is low on confidence?
Ten Hag said it
He also gave up on football today on many occasions. His body language looks terrible.
It’s not a form thing or confidence issue.
He doesn’t have the heart. Rashford would never win any 50/50 anymore.
He doesn’t have the heart. Rashford would never win any 50/50 anymore.
Weird watching Utd games and the commentators constantly go on about how dangerous he looks everytime he gets the ball. Honestly no idea what game they're watching.
Should have been benched weeks ago. Garnacho brings so much more to the team. Its just wrong if he doesn't begin starting games.
Should have been benched weeks ago. Garnacho brings so much more to the team. Its just wrong if he doesn't begin starting games.
Something else that he hasn't bothered to improve since he was 18. All he ever seems to want to do is knuckleball everything like a kid.
I feel its quite common with a lot of players now a days. Too much watching CR7 compilations rather than someone like Henry.
Unpopular opinion, I don't think he was that bad. The manger continues to set him up for failure, with the lack of an overlapping option that the opposition has to respect. The left side use to be our most dangerous side. Now we're just shit all around.
Yes, I know 3 injured fullbacks hasn't help, but it's down to ETH to fine a way of replicating their productivity with what he has. Cutback chances are the cookie cutters of the league. Heck teams create 4 or 5 of these against us per game, yet we struggle to create any. This for me, is the biggest sign of a poor offence.
Yes, I know 3 injured fullbacks hasn't help, but it's down to ETH to fine a way of replicating their productivity with what he has. Cutback chances are the cookie cutters of the league. Heck teams create 4 or 5 of these against us per game, yet we struggle to create any. This for me, is the biggest sign of a poor offence.
There was a shot of Erik at one down and the commentator and the commentator was saying bet he wishes Rashford was still on the pitch.
I assume they don't watch United week in week out and don't have any recent form to go on
He had a couple of good dribbles but everything else he did was bad. He didn't press and softened his body in all 50/50s (and predictably lost possession, once in dangerous area)
I don't know what he paid the commentators to wax lyrical about him throughout the game. When his number was called, the commentators were expecting boos. Really? Instead they got cheers as Garnacho jogged on to the pitch to their bemusement.
He is really a one trick pony nowadays. Will stand out wide, receive the ball to feet, and try to power through 3 defenders and get into the box to get a shot on or get fouled and win a penalty. Rinse and repeat. He only jogs back to defend when the ball is past our defensive third. His decision making is poor, his team-play has been atrocious so far this season, and he believes that he is the current superstar in the team.
It is high time that the likes of him and Casemiro are dropped else there will be no sense of meritocracy left in the squad.
He is really a one trick pony nowadays. Will stand out wide, receive the ball to feet, and try to power through 3 defenders and get into the box to get a shot on or get fouled and win a penalty. Rinse and repeat. He only jogs back to defend when the ball is past our defensive third. His decision making is poor, his team-play has been atrocious so far this season, and he believes that he is the current superstar in the team.
It is high time that the likes of him and Casemiro are dropped else there will be no sense of meritocracy left in the squad.
I think this was mostly because Martial, Bruno, Rashford, Shaw (our four most threatening players for a good chunk of time) overloaded the left half space. Throw Pogba in there as well. Our attack plan A was to simply overload the left and isolate Greenwood on the right.
Bruno seems to prefer the right wing these days (likely a tactical choice by Ten Hag). He rotates with the winger that cuts inside / tries to put in that KdB type ball. A lot of our attacks go down the right as well these days.
I disagree with the rest of your post -- I think tactically this is fine.
Yeah I don't understand why our team doesn't try to go more direct at times to switch the tempo. We just do this side to side passing that's slow which gives teams time to setup against
Basically this, our best results last season came while him being in top form, once he stopped scoring we struggled.
This year he has a bad start so we barely score.
Even last season, our main attacking plan was: Give the ball to Rashford and hope for the best, now this doesn't work anymore.
Watching that clip (which is biased by the way), you can see the amount of double teams he's getting. There has to be an easy passing out of this. It's what all good teams do, they create overloads. Instead we have our players being overloaded then expect something special out of them.
ETH talks about standards yet does start him over again. He was so off yesterday, there is no way he should start games. If the manager is not ruthless, he will be sacked for starting underperforming players.
Rashford does not even work for it, if you are off form, at least fight. Just saw some clips from Becks, I mean this guy fought like crazy even if things did not work. Different mentality I guess and it is whats preventing Rashford from being a truly great player
Shocking yesterday . Gave up on a 50/50 ball in the 1st half next to where I was sitting. The whole stand reacted to it while he just raised his hands at the red. Sarcastic applause when he was subbed off yesterday. I’m hoping if Qatar take over they can use their relationship with PSG owners to feck him off
Streaky Player.. they Form is Temporary, Class is Permanent, and Rashford is the definition of a player who's performances are so inconsistent that you only hope his good form lasts longer when he is on it or his bad form doesn't last too long.
Hoping for his shit form to end and his good form to start, that's the best we can get.
As of now, Garnacho isn't ready to bench Rashford, however, if, and that's a big if, if in the next game Rashford is actually benched and Garnacho is selected to start and he has a huge performance, then maybe we can actually consider dropping Rashford.
Hoping for his shit form to end and his good form to start, that's the best we can get.
As of now, Garnacho isn't ready to bench Rashford, however, if, and that's a big if, if in the next game Rashford is actually benched and Garnacho is selected to start and he has a huge performance, then maybe we can actually consider dropping Rashford.
It's pretty amazing how one comment from manager made people convinced Garnacho is not ready to play few games ahead of one of our worst players this season. We are sitting in tenth position with negative goal difference, clueless how to score goals, but apparently it's a big risk to give few games to one of most talented youngsters in the world.
A bunch of the players are just incredibly fragile when it comes to form and mentally, Rashford epitomises that.
The guy is putting up 2 out of 10 performances so far this season. But it’s not due to a lack of trying. He just seems far too sorry for himself.
When you have 3-4 players all suffering from the same thing you end up mid table.
The guy is putting up 2 out of 10 performances so far this season. But it’s not due to a lack of trying. He just seems far too sorry for himself.
When you have 3-4 players all suffering from the same thing you end up mid table.
Seems to be, and after getting the bumper contract, a manager to put his arm round him (which everyone clamoured for after Ralf), playing in his preferred position theres nothing to hide behind really
I think he just needed to be smarter yesterday, although you can blame Ten Hag for that too. Brentford had 3 CBs and wing backs and CMs who came to cover too so by the time Rashford got the ball be had at least 2 defenders in front of him and he isn't going to get past 2 of them. Garnacho had the same problem when he came on, although with a bit of trickery he managed to get the ball back for the equaliser. We needed a different tactic when our wide players were getting doubled up on so I'm not entirely blaming Rashford for his poor performance yesterday.
Weird isn't it? Apart from about 6 months last year he's been pretty awful for about 3 seasons now.
You watched him this season? You can clearly see the difference with Rashford when he's playing with confidence and not.
His Rolls Royce has been written off, maybe that's the problem
. He has just been infected with the general malaise spreading throught the team just now. Everything is done at a stroll allowing the opposition to pack their defence then we pass the ball sideways or backwards. Nobody seems to want the responsibilty of attacking anymore. Mount has had a number of shots blocked and Bruno isn't hitting the target as often as he was. Hopefully, it will all click soon.
. He has just been infected with the general malaise spreading throught the team just now. Everything is done at a stroll allowing the opposition to pack their defence then we pass the ball sideways or backwards. Nobody seems to want the responsibilty of attacking anymore. Mount has had a number of shots blocked and Bruno isn't hitting the target as often as he was. Hopefully, it will all click soon.Getting sick of all the tactics blaming when Garnacho is able to do stuff on the left in lesser minutes than Rashford has done all season.
We literally are running out of options in the backline that we resorted to playing a midfielder at fullback this season. hat the feck do you expect the manager to do?
Rashford needs to man up and stop feeling sorry for himself and just start doing the basics like tracking back and putting in effort off the ball. He’s literally not even doing the bare minimum on the pitch but the excuses are always there for him. He’s supposed to be in his prime, not a fresh eyed 18 year old boy just making his debut.
Ridiculous take that the manager is expected to make a player playing out of position fit his game to accommodate Rashford who’s playing in his natural position. He literally has more than enough to handle from playing out of position already.
Got the big contract he wanted after a first decent season from him in a few years and has now resorted to 2021 Rashford. I do think ETH has to take some accountability here though, he has put Rashford and Bruno for that matter in the undroppable bucket and given them no incentive to perform. Take him out for a couple games and see what the team produce.
Just hate his demeanor he looks absolutely not bothered at all. Body language of a petulant child.
I see you have completely missed the point of my post, as have a few others. You people are trying to make me out to be some kind of Rashford apologist, which couldn't be further from the truth. Guess you need to vent your frustrations against someone.
Let's get one thing clear, I didn't say Rashford was playing well, didn't even say he wasn't playing poorly. I think it's the manager's job to put his players in the best position to succeed. Leaving your players going up against two opposition players is not good tactics. I hope Rashford gets dropped, so we can see what Garnacho can do. We generally lack width and move the ball too slowly as a team and it's down to the manager to fix that, injuries or not.
I understand what you are saying, but it's a tricky subject. Our tactics does seem to be 'give the ball to Rashford and inshallah' at times but he doesn't help himself with his lacklustre workrate and static movement - the latter is the reason he is so easily double-teamed. His modus operandi when facing a low block is just standing still on the left waiting for the ball and when he receives it he either lose the ball via his awful passing or when trying to slalom run through three defenders. It does look good when he pulls it off (he nearly did a couple of times yesterday) but it's not a sustainable tactic due to him being nowhere good enough at dribbles.
The reason it is a tricky subject is because he needs to benched for a long time due to his dreadful performances and even worse attitude, but at the same he is the face of the club (with the salary to match) and we are desperate for him to perform to salvage anything out of this shitshow of a season.
The geordie co-commentator on my stream (not sure who, maybe Michael Chopra?) was going on about how the fans were going to react negatively to Rashford being subbed when he heard he was being hooked. Then tried to double down on it when massive cheers broke out when the sub was actually made.
Yeah this is a big issue for us this season. It's a little big of A and a little bit of B. He's been poor, but he's not been helped by the way the team is set up. People want Garnacho to start, but he gets the benefit of coming on against tiring teams. He'll get no help on the overlap, just like Rashford, if he starts.
I was also surprised when I heard that. Clueless.The geordie co-commentator on my stream (not sure who, maybe Michael Chopra?) was going on about how the fans were going to react negatively to Rashford being subbed when he heard he was being hooked. Then tried to double down on it when massive cheers broke out when the sub was actually made.
Will probably find some confidence again and start scoring. This inconsistency though can’t be tolerated and he should be excluded from our long term vision, which at the moment is non existent but hopefully with new owners…
The geordie co-commentator on my stream (not sure who, maybe Michael Chopra?) was going on about how the fans were going to react negatively to Rashford being subbed when he heard he was being hooked. Then tried to double down on it when massive cheers broke out when the sub was actually made.
That was gas. He tried to claim the cheering was Brentford fans delighted to see our main threat was being subbed off. He also seemed to think Rashford had been our best player, for some weird reason. It was all a bit surreal.
That man knew how to curl the ball even on the ground forget in the air.
Thought he played decent in midweek but not so much yesterday. We've become reliant on his attacking output and when he's not doing it, like most of this season, we look bereft of other ideas.
I'd stick him on the right for Sheffield United. Garnacho on the left. Direct pace on both wings and better service to the striker. Might get him up and running confidence wise as well.
If it doesn't work, we've got Anthony to come on.
I'd stick him on the right for Sheffield United. Garnacho on the left. Direct pace on both wings and better service to the striker. Might get him up and running confidence wise as well.
If it doesn't work, we've got Anthony to come on.
its the oppositions fault now for doubling up on an attacking threat? Bastids
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