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Lastly, the outcome matched the efficiency for Manchester United as they misplaced to Fulham 1-2 at Outdated Trafford in an insipid show.
Erik ten Hag’s tactical selections performed an enormous function within the loss, arguably the largest, however finally, gamers had the power to affect the sport on the pitch and failed to take action.
Marcus Rashford personified the frustrations round this United group as he crawled to a different uninspiring, half-hearted show.
Rashford began up entrance in Rasmus Hojlund’s absence and bought the complete “Manchester United striker in 2023/24” expertise.
In Ten Hag’s dysfunctional group, he fed off scraps however in contrast to Rasmus, who’s all the time working laborious and making an attempt to take advantage of no matter comes his means, simply regarded to have switched off.
He completed his 90 minutes with simply 27 touches of the ball, finishing simply 13 passes and making an attempt solely 16.
His lacklustre type of dribbling, which all the time causes frustration on the wing, regarded much more pronounced within the center as he misplaced possession of the ball 9 occasions.
Not like most artistic gamers, the lack of possession wasn’t even within the technique of making an attempt to create possibilities.
It was simply Rashford operating aimlessly right into a crowd of Fulham gamers with none thought of what to do afterwards.
So as to add to his attacking woes, his defensive dedication, ceaselessly in query and much more so this season, was beneath the scanner once more.
Victor Lindelof, a pure centre-back, was left on an island towards Fulham time and time once more as Rashford’s monitoring again efforts had been restricted to him throwing his palms within the air and searching disgruntled after a easy one-two bypassed him.
Finally, the supervisor can pay the value for such performances and for this recreation, the vast majority of the blame lies on Ten Hag too.
However Rashford is more and more beginning to embody every part that’s fallacious with the trendy Manchester United- an absence of management, questions over motivation, and restricted scope of expertise.
