I’d imagine he’ll be back for the FA Cup semi final, to be fair I don’t care if we go out of Europa as I’d rather we get top four and win the FA Cup.
Rashford out for the next few games
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He is better than Weghorst
If it is just 2-3 games then, yeah, that's decent news given the alternatives - even though he'll be a huge loss for the Sevilla tie and makes that a much tougher task.
However, I'm really not convinced that it will be just 2-3 games. ETH was cagey in the press conference and his slight expanding on the few games phrasing was "I can't give more details of it because we don't know. We have to see how the injury develops."
That sounds like 2-3 games minimum to me, and, as was posted earlier, it may be a non-comittal term used to downplay the blow that it's likely to be more than that.
I'm really hoping he's back sooner rather than later, but I'm not currently confident of seeing him in the FA Cup semi final or Spurs game. Hopefully it will be just 2-3 games, and he does return for the SF, as a sub or starter. But, if I had to guess at this point, I'd think the end of April / start of May, so the Villa or Brighton league games?
He should be back for the Europa League semi-finals though, if we can believe the club. So if we manage to get past Sevilla but feck up in the league, we'd still have one avenue into the CL.
Better than I hoped honestly. Looked like a groin and those can linger for months
Yeah, I thought he was done for the month and perhaps beyond, so this is encouraging.
Still not entirely convinced we'll be comfortable without him, unless Wout remembers he's a striker and starts scoring or Martial gets a Deadpool like transformation to stay healthy.
Still not entirely convinced we'll be comfortable without him, unless Wout remembers he's a striker and starts scoring or Martial gets a Deadpool like transformation to stay healthy.
I feel like it's worse than they're making out.
According to some "experts" on the CAF this is "good news"
"Ok".
I think compared to him being out for the rest of the season, which was a possibility, this is pretty decent news.
Not good news. The guy who’s scoring all the goals is injured. There’s us not scoring many now. Time for Antony and martial to step up. Also any news on Garnacho?
He has been our talisman for sure this year, but he has scored 3 of our last 14 goals, so we are not completely reliant.
Not the best news but having Casemiro and Martial back softens the blow. The overall drop in the team shouldn't be that big.
It looked like he could be out for the season? Definitely good news.
The injury is bad news. The fact that he's only reported to be out "for a few games" and ETH is saying he will return quickly is definitely good news, on face value at least. At a minimum he was always looking at about 2-3 weeks out but the fear was that it would be longer.
Yes, ten Hag's comments sounded odd if it were really only a couple of weeks
Very vague. I hope this isnt the same as gary neville's back in 2 weeks thing.
I can’t imagine he’ll be back to start against Brighton, but even if he can give 20 minutes it would be a big boost. I’m not massively worried about the three games before that.
Ssshhh..... We don't talk about Tony.
Rashford has 15 goals while our next top 4 scorers combined have 16 (Bruno Jadon Anthony Antony) in the EPL.
If you take all our Europa league scorers this season, Rashford has 6 goals alone and the rest of the team has 10 (not counting ronaldo anymore).
He'll definitely be missed, but hopefully we can make it through these next games without him.
If you take all our Europa league scorers this season, Rashford has 6 goals alone and the rest of the team has 10 (not counting ronaldo anymore).
He'll definitely be missed, but hopefully we can make it through these next games without him.
Yep that’s my worry too. Teams can afford to press us quite high now and we’ll struggle to find an out ball. Martial’s not as quick as he used to be. Antony is hit n miss in behind and Sancho has got in behind as often as weghorst.
Lashford to lash a couple in?
He literally says Rashford will return quickly.
The club may as well not have not announced anything since a lot of people here don’t believe them for some reason
Only consistent goalscorer we have. This is terrible news. Martial needs to stay fit and Sancho and Antony need to start scoring more.
If we can't knock out this Sevilla, with or without Rashford, then we have no business being here. They are atrocious.
I would argue that these will be our easiest games until the end of the season and he has to be rested somewhere. It's better to be here.
I'm excited to see how Ten Hag adapts. I feel like he is capable of finding a way to get the most out of the players.
Sancho Martial Antony will be fun to watch I reckon and I'm guessing effective too.
Now we see who has the stones to step up and replace Rashfords goals. All focus on our expensive forwards to actually do something.
Brighton is in 10 days and Spurs in two weeks. I guess it is too soon to have him in one of those games?
This. Our front 3 is payed close to 250 mil. Time to step up.
Yes I am too. I’ve got full faith ETH will work something out. Just because Rashford is out I don’t think we’ll suddenly score no goals. We’ll just have a different approach and focal point. Martial staying fit now is critical though.
If he is out even just till end of April, I'll be surprised. The way he limped off, I think it will be deeper into May at best. I know it's a different type of injury but, both Garnacho and Eriksen stayed on the field after their injuries and out for months. Groin injuries seem like they take a while to heal properly.
It's always hard to replace a scorer in any sport but, also do have some things going for us that might soften the blo ETH is going to really have to light a fire under Sancho/Antony and get them to really step up. As much as I think Martial could fill in scoring to a degree, just no confidence in him being available.
The other plus right now is is with both Casemiro and Eriksen back, Bruno can be played in a way that let's him also become more of a goal threat like in his first couple of years. Let's hope at least.
It's always hard to replace a scorer in any sport but, also do have some things going for us that might soften the blo ETH is going to really have to light a fire under Sancho/Antony and get them to really step up. As much as I think Martial could fill in scoring to a degree, just no confidence in him being available.
The other plus right now is is with both Casemiro and Eriksen back, Bruno can be played in a way that let's him also become more of a goal threat like in his first couple of years. Let's hope at least.
Was expecting worse news...however I forgot that Garnacho is also out right now. Sancho and Antony on the wings lack a lot of pace and explosiveness.
And Sancho. And Weggy. And Antony. And Bruno.
Think we will be lucky to see him again this season, fully fit.
Garnacho better be fit soon
Yes we're very reliant on Rashford.
Out of that 11 goals, the scorers are Fred, Sabitzer, Pellistri, McTominay, whom may not play a lot when other players come back into the starting XI. Garnacho out injured. Weghorst is struggling to score meaningful goal against competent opposition. Antony and Sancho belong to the regular group too, but they're not prolific. Martial only recently comes back and only had 1 goal. So it's left with Bruno as the most prolific as the starter out of that bunch.
The boost of Eriksen and Casemiro returning (and Martial for however long that lasts) outweighs the loss of rashford IMO. Hopefully we are full strength for the last couple of weeks at least.
Sancho and Antony are not really scoring forwards. They are more conductors, unfortunately.
I believe him when he says they don't know, which by itself is a bit concerning. If he were to miss two weeks and that could be two competitions done. Hope it clears up quickly or it's some mind games from the team (not counting that out yet either).
I think we can get through Sevilla and beat Forest without him.
If he's not back for the F.A. Cup match and Spurs that will be a bit concerning. Especially since I expect Martial will be injured by then.
If he's not back for the F.A. Cup match and Spurs that will be a bit concerning. Especially since I expect Martial will be injured by then.