Marcus Rashford has to watch in the coming weeks, Manchester United writes on the official channels. The man in shape the Red Devils fell against Everton on Saturday and has suffered a muscle injury. As a result, Rashford will in any case miss the Europa League diptych with Sevilla and probably also the squatter against Chelsea on April 22. A big downer for Erik ten Hag, who loses more than thirty percent of his goals this season.
Rashford had to be replaced ten minutes before time on Saturday and the United staff was immediately shocked. With his 28 goals across all competitions, the Englishman already accounted for 32.6 percent of the total production. United will announce on Wednesday that they will certainly not have Rashford for ‘a few games’, but that he is expected to be there again during the season finale. In any case, he will not make it to the meeting with Sevilla on Thursday.
The figures show a great dependence on Rashford, but Ten Hag did not want to admit it before. “We have enough players in the team who can score,” de Tukker said last month, naming Bruno Fernandes, Anthony Martial, Jadon Sancho, Scott McTominay and Antony. Remarkably enough, Wout Weghorst was skipped. The Dutch centre-forward has not scored a league goal since his arrival in January and has only scored once in the Europa League and EFL Cup.
The goals now seem to have to come from Martial. The Frenchman has been battling injuries all season, but often appears on the scoresheet when fit. Martial signed for the final chord in Saturday’s 2-0 win over Everton, marking his seventh across all competitions. With this, the center striker annex wing attacker only has to tolerate Rashford (28) and Fernandes (10). Antony also made seven, while Fred (six), Casemiro and Jadon Sancho (five) follow closely.