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Flop: Marcus Rashford
The Mancunian started up front for United and was a crucial plan to the counter-attacking approach that the manager had planned while setting the team up. Rashford has previously performed very well against in these integral matches against the top six and hence was expected to play with composure in this encounter too.
However, the lad was too impatient to have any notable impact throughout the course of the match. Firstly, he couldn’t use his pace to outrun the defenders and was unable to control the ball effectively whenever it was expected from him.
He was too hurried and didn’t hold the ball up well either to bring the wingers into play. Playing as a number nine, it was crucial for the whole team that Rashford uses his strength to dominate City’s centre-back duo.
Unfortunately, he neither used his athletic abilities to outrun his adversaries nor demonstrated the holdup play of a typical centre-forward.
He mistimed or misplaced his passes whenever United had an opportunity to break on a counter-attack and his poor control allowed the opposition to yet again retain the ball and move up towards United’s defensive box.
