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Lastly, the outcome matched the efficiency for Manchester United as they misplaced to Fulham 1-2 at Outdated Trafford in an insipid show.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 decisions played a huge role within the loss, arguably the most important, however finally, gamers had the flexibility to affect the sport on the pitch and failed to take action.
Marcus Rashford personified the frustrations round this United crew as he crawled to a different uninspiring, half-hearted show.
Rashford began up entrance in Rasmus Hojlund’s absence and received the complete “Manchester United striker in 2023/24” expertise.
In Ten Hag’s dysfunctional crew, he fed off scraps however not like Rasmus, who’s at all times working laborious and attempting to take advantage of no matter comes his manner, simply appeared 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 at all times causes frustration on the wing, appeared much more pronounced within the center as he misplaced possession of the ball 9 instances.
In contrast to most inventive gamers, the lack of possession wasn’t even within the strategy of attempting to create probabilities.
It was simply Rashford working 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, endlessly 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 have been restricted to him throwing his palms within the air and looking out disgruntled after a easy one-two bypassed him.
In the end, the supervisor can pay the value for such performances and for this sport, nearly all of the blame lies on Ten Hag too.
However Rashford is more and more beginning to embody all the things that’s mistaken with the trendy Manchester United- an absence of management, questions over motivation, and restricted scope of expertise.
