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2024-25 Performances


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4.9 Season Average Rating
Appearances
24
Goals
7
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3
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England’s current left winger has 15GA so far this season. Rashford has 14GA. One of these players spent most of the season playing for a woeful United team and then got ostracised for 2 months.

Rashford is England’s best left winger by a distance (it’s a problem position). If whatever issues he had at United are behind him, it’s a no brainer to return him to the squad.
Come on now. Don’t focus solely on numbers as we know that isn’t what the biggest issue with Rashford is.
When comparing Gordon to Rashford even if there isn’t much in ability between the pair, their application is miles apart.
England don’t have many high performing left players correct but Rashford hasn’t sniffed a call up for a while and it’s utterly bizarre that one is coming based on a few cameo performances for Villa.
 
All he ever tried to do for us over the last 3 years was cut inside and shoot.

All of a sudden he's going down the line and cutting the ball back in for the CF
 
All he ever tried to do for us over the last 3 years was cut inside and shoot.

All of a sudden he's going down the line and cutting the ball back in for the CF

He’s been doing that for us for some time. It was clearly a change last season, to try and feed Hojlund particularly. There was obviously regression in Rashford’s game last season but this was noticeably something he was working on. The difference now is that he actually has someone sticking away the chances.
 
Come on now. Don’t focus solely on numbers as we know that isn’t what the biggest issue with Rashford is.
When comparing Gordon to Rashford even if there isn’t much in ability between the pair, their application is miles apart.
England don’t have many high performing left players correct but Rashford hasn’t sniffed a call up for a while and it’s utterly bizarre that one is coming based on a few cameo performances for Villa.

I’d say there’s quite a big ability gap in Rashford’s favour. I agree that Gordon narrows that gap by being better defensively but I’d always take the forward who has the ability to hurt the opposition at international level.

I suspect it may be too early for him to be recalled but it will definitely be something Tuchel is looking at in the medium termI would have thought.
 
You will need to back the bolded up with some video evidence because I don't recall any of these great crosses/absolute sitters from Rashford that were being missed before he was exiled. I think this is coming from the same place as me when I was younger where my ex girlfriends got prettier by the day in my memory once I had split with them.
In the below video there are 3 big chances created by Rashford (I'm not counting the one where he stumbles against a defender) that should have led to goals. I felt like he was trying to adapt his game and create more chances for others before he got exciled, but I also know that he must have been exiled for a reason. It's just that he didn't do things for us that he is now doing for Aston Villa.

Man United missed big chances