Lakshay Khurana
The young United starlet has had a dream start to his professional career by scoring 4 goals in his only 2 games at the age of 18, taking the football world by storm. Rashford began playing football for Fletcher Moss Rangers at the age of five and joined the academy system at Manchester United at the age of seven. His goals made him United’s youngest ever scorer in European competition beating a record previously held by the Reds legend, George Best.
The 18 year old has shown that more and more clubs need to follow Manchester United and give their academy players a chance. United have a strong tradition in doing this and timings of Rashford’s arrival couldn’t have come at more suitable moment for the club.
A week ago, none of us had heard of Marcus Rashford. But with only 2 games played by him, the youngster is now already being tipped as English football’s next big thing. Let’s analyse his playing style in an in-depth manner in this article,
TRAITS
CALM AND CLINICAL FINISHING
Young players aren’t used to perform during high pressures and it can make them miss chances to score a vital goal or two. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Rashford. His goals show the calmness he possesses when kicking the ball at the back of the net with a single well-placed touch.
NOT JUST A POACHER
Rashford has shown that he is not a striker with the only trait of being a poacher. He has shut this stereotype by his style of play. His assist to Ander Herrera was pure professional and is definitely not expected by any random player of his age and experience. He has a forceful nature in his runs to get ahead of his markers looking to get into positions to strike.
POTENTIAL
The Reds as we all know had only two main strikers, Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial. But now the club can change that number to three. Rashford has shown some promising display on the pitch and has given the impression that he has the right tools to make an impact in the Premier League with his goal tally to rise a lot more, if not now then later with more game time and experience. If he can stay consistent and take it step by step, there is a good chance that he will end up being the next big thing at Manchester United.
SIXTH SENSE
All the top class striker have a gift of anticipating the ball, where it might deflect off, when a defender’s going to make a mistake, where the crosses will end up at, and when to make runs for through passes. The last two games have indicated that the 18-year-old starlet does possess this quality have having this natural sense.
