We should play Rashford up top, especially now when we are only going to be playing with three attacking players under Ruby. This is not helping him. He should come off the bench and go against tired defenses where he has more opportunity. The guy is clearly very raw with some basic tools lacking. He simply shouldn't be a starter.
9
Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 19
- Goals
- 7
- Assists
- 1
- Yellow cards
- 1
Need to find a way to consistently find him running in behind. That seems like his main game. Unfortunately for us if you combined his and Zirkzees strengths you’d have a hell of a player but neither on their own look good enough. I really miss an uninjured prime Martial.
I simply think this shit Ten Hag system isn’t conducive to any striker getting good service. Everything is so stretched wide and relies on the wrong players making proper passes and runs in behind.
But at the same time agree he has to be a bit impact ful in games like this
Yep I suggested this. While it isn’t Rashfords best position he is a better CF than anyone else we have.
Had some mixed performances lately, but tonight was just shocking from him. Still well within the bounds of what can be chalked up to youthful inconsistency, but he needs to start putting things together again soon.
Somehow there will still be posters excusing him saying he gets no service as if he isn’t 100% responsible for that.
He was so bad today it was unreal. Not even bad in terms of using the ball poorly but his inability to get into a game might be the worst I’ve seen at the club other than Donny.
He was so bad today it was unreal. Not even bad in terms of using the ball poorly but his inability to get into a game might be the worst I’ve seen at the club other than Donny.
I'm a fan of Rasmus' but that just wasn't good enough. I understand his frustration because we have all the creativity of a rock. However, when we did get into the right areas he often wasn't where he needed to be.
Chances of him becoming good enough striker for us are more or less equal to him becoming a professional wrestler, judging by the way he "plays".
When Højlund has been injured, it has always taken a long time before he is in top form again. You also saw it last season, when he didn't score in the league for the first long time after his injury. He will probably get better if he doesn't get any more major injuries this season.
Today he was very anonymous, but he played almost like a "box striker" today and depended on the creativity of his teammates. And it was largely lacking.
Today he was very anonymous, but he played almost like a "box striker" today and depended on the creativity of his teammates. And it was largely lacking.
Very poor, couldn't trap a bag of cement.
A bit worrying. Hopefully the new manager will help him but as others have said, this isn't good enough.
Awful tonight.
Yup this. Ooft that was a bad game.
What the feck is that? Absolutely appalling. Ban worthy stuff.
No, we cant lay all the blame on the system. A good & better skilled striker will get others into play and won't lose the ball as often with a bad touch. Blaming everything on the system or on his age is a cop out.
We made a mistake & paid 70m for 25m-30m prospect. That doesn't mean that we now have to play him to prove our investment wasn't wrong. His best attribute is his finishing, so let's have him come as a sub and try use that skill against tired defenses.
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He had a stinker tonight.
This guy is very raw. I never want to write-off players but he will need to improve a lot to make it here. He makes wrong runs most of the time. His first touch is poor and it is not easy to get rid of that. There is a reason he rarely gets to the end of balls. He doesn't time his runs well enough. His anticipation of where the ball will end is non existent. He has all attributes but lacks instinct of a top striker
I'm willing to give him a run of games under new coach but with each passing game the lingering feeling is that he doesn't have the necessary ammunition to lead the line for Utd.
Miles off it and it’s not just tonight it’s been for the vast majority of his time here he’s not looking good enough unfortunately
Need to get to the summer and sign a proper striker, Rasmus is that far from being good enough he probably needs to go out on loan
Need to get to the summer and sign a proper striker, Rasmus is that far from being good enough he probably needs to go out on loan
Problem is he has probably had no more than 10 good games for us
Really, really poor.
He's been almost zero threat all season, I know the service he gets is poor but he's got to be doing more than this.
He's been almost zero threat all season, I know the service he gets is poor but he's got to be doing more than this.
Horrible game for him, his expression towards the end was frustration. He knows it isn't good enough.
We played a poor Greek side and he still went missing, I wish people would stop defending him with this "lack of service" and "dysfuntional team" nonsence and accept he simply isnt good enough.
Struggling with the basics...
I wonder if people watch his movement at all in a game. It's atrocious. How can you give service to someone who is never making the right runs? He's consistently in the wrong positions. I said it in the match thread but Casemiro was making better runs off the shoulder than our striker.
This system relies very heavily on the CF being the fulcrum, holding the ball up and bringing others into play. He’s just not suited for it at all and it exposes all his weaknesses. I’m doubtful any modern CF position can hide them completely (passing, control and movement being fairly key attributes) but hopefully Amorim can get more out of him than this.
I’m agreeing with your assessment of Hojlund right now for the record, I’m just also noting that the way in which this system looks to fashion chances seems terribly backwards (outside of countering opportunities).
Point being, let’s see what Amorim does with him. As for now, I’d probably move back to the Zirkzee, Rashford, Amad front 3 that we only saw once in the Soton game.
Unless something changes drastically changes under Amorim, for me considering his price tag and the fact that he is almost the same age as Amad, I would consider him a flop.
People will keep saying give him time. He's been here for well over a year and it still looks the fundamentals of football elude him.
Passing - I can't even evaluate it because I can barely recall any instances of him picking out nice passes.
Runs/movement - Very poor for a striker.
Finishing - Average.
Pace - He's fast but not the good kind of fast. He needs acres of field to run into to hit top speed. We don't/cannot exploit that.
Hold up play - It's crap. People think it's good because he twerks into defenders and occasionally gets a free kick for it. Hold up play is receiving the ball, laying it off or turning with it and bringing others into play. He rarely does this.
He's a poor player. Yes, yes, it's very sad because he's young and seems like a nice lad who tries hard but we can't be persisting with a striker like this for the coming years.
Last throw of the dice is hoping Amorim can work wonders with him. He's big, blonde and Nordic like Gyokeres so fingers crossed.
Passing - I can't even evaluate it because I can barely recall any instances of him picking out nice passes.
Runs/movement - Very poor for a striker.
Finishing - Average.
Pace - He's fast but not the good kind of fast. He needs acres of field to run into to hit top speed. We don't/cannot exploit that.
Hold up play - It's crap. People think it's good because he twerks into defenders and occasionally gets a free kick for it. Hold up play is receiving the ball, laying it off or turning with it and bringing others into play. He rarely does this.
He's a poor player. Yes, yes, it's very sad because he's young and seems like a nice lad who tries hard but we can't be persisting with a striker like this for the coming years.
Last throw of the dice is hoping Amorim can work wonders with him. He's big, blonde and Nordic like Gyokeres so fingers crossed.
He was terrible tonight unfortunately.
That's what worries me the most about him. I would be ok with a young forward missing chances providing he's getting in the right positions but Hojlund shows no awareness at all and is constantly away from the action
It is 2 months since he recovered. He played 13 games since then.
So, you want to say that after every injury we should wait 3 or 4 months to count on him?
The expectations on this kid are ridiculous. He has previously shown more than enough to believe he will be a very good no.9 but he’s still developing, and he’s having to do it in an underperforming team, surrounded by inconsistent team mates and off the back of injury troubles. I think if Amorim has the effect he had on Gyokeres who we are all spunking over, then Rasmus will become a beast!
Exactly, people keep going on about him getting no service but the fact is he is never in the right places to get service
He has never shown anything to suggest he is good enough to be a regular starting number 9 for a club like ours so far
You might not be the best judge to be fair…
I keep saying that for a year now when people talk about bad service. Good pass or cross are only half of job. Striker must put himself in right position (feel where the ball will go).
Hojlund is absolutely atrocious in that. Casemiro is good example of good positioning in the box.
For how poor he is, I'd still much rather see him in the starting line-up that Zirkzee. It's crazy how we are in this situation given the money spent.
It’s why Viktor should be target #1 this summer for us really (barring Amorim developing Hojlunds game significantly in that last half of the season)