Manchester United: Marcus Rashford – Ex-Man United player Gary Neville has spoken about Marcus Rashford who was going through a difficult time following his barren spell of goals for the club. Gary Neville said that he was very happy to see the youngster score in back-to-back games coming of the bench to help his team kill off the game and win vital 3 points on both occasions. Interim manager Ralf Rangnick also spoke highly of the England International. Follow InsideSport.IN for the latest news and updates.
Manchester United: Gary Neville believes that Marcus Rashford’s late winner against West Ham ‘brought joy to him’; Check what Ralf Rangnick said about Rashford
Rashford netted a stoppage-time winner at Old Trafford to seal the three points for Ralf Rangnick’s side, having arrived at the far post with the last kick of the game to tuck home Edinson Cavani’s low cross.
🎙️ “We can’t have a lack of emotion.”
Gary Neville says Marcus Rashford’s last-minute winner vs West Ham was an important moment for the #MUFC striker who has looked void of ‘energy’ and ‘spirit’ in the last few months. pic.twitter.com/4lqxQHCO73
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Manchester United: Gary Neville on Marcus Rashford
The effort came days after he also added to his tally at Brentford, and Sky Sports pundit Neville is now excited to see him kick on, with the striker having been forced to battle against claims that off-field matters were affecting his performances. ‘The thing for me about Marcus Rashford, when I saw him celebrate that goal, it brought joy to him,’ he said on his Sky Sports podcast.
“I think that’s the most important thing when you’re a football player – passion and joy. I’m not saying you have to walk around with a smile on your face. I either want to see joy, or passion, or fire. I don’t want to see that face of nothing. I think Marcus, over the past couple of months or so, he’s just looked drained in his face of any energy, of any spirit. That can’t happen.”
Manchester United: Gary Neville believes that Rashford’s late winner against West Ham ‘brought joy to him
“You can have fire, you can have anger, you can have joy, you can have all those different emotions, but you can’t have a lack of emotion. I think it was a big moment for Marcus, and hopefully now gives him the confidence to rise again, puff his chest out, and do the things that he does, because he’s an excellent striker and an excellent forward.”
“The goal in the last minute is a big one. It’s a big one for the club, big one for the squad. A big one for the scorer. I think it was really important. There were a lot of questions being asked of Marcus Rashford. I’m not quite sure it’s fair, it was suggested he’d been distracted by off-field events as soon as he has a difficult patch.”
“That’s the easy thing to say because no one knows why it’s a difficult patch. It could be a difficult patch because of a number of different reasons – it could be injury, loss of form, confidence, the team not playing well. But it’s the easy thing to do, isn’t it, to point towards the off field stuff. It was a big thing for him.”
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Manchester United: Ralf Rangnick says Rashford is one of the top strikers in England
United’s victory saw them move above West Ham and into fourth. They are next in action in the top-flight against Burnley early next month.
“I am pretty sure that those two goals have raised the level of confidence within Marcus [Rashford]. Now it is about taking the next steps and showing that on a regular basis. He [Rashford] has got the pace, the skills, he has got the size, the physicality of the striker and in the end it is all about confidence for strikers.”
Manchester United: Ralf Rangnick on Rashford
“He [Rashford] is one of the top strikers in England. He is an English international who regular played in the Euros. We all know what kind of quality he has. He has got almost everything that a modern striker needs.”
“It is up to him [Rashford]. If he continually plays on a high level and keeps scoring goals, of course this is the best way to get back into the team and play from the beginning. Right now, yes, he [Rashford] has scored twice in consecutive games when he came from the bench but, of course, his ambition is to play regularly from the start again.”
“We have a lot of wingers, we have a lot of outstanding players in that position. Jadon [Sancho] was not available today [vs Brentford] but we have a lot of players for those two positions [striker and winger] and Marcus [Rashford] is one of them.”
Manchester United: Gary Neville believes that Marcus Rashford’s late winner against West Ham ‘brought joy to him’; Check what Ralf Rangnick said about Rashford
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