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Yesterday against Southampton, Marcus Rashford scored his first Manchester United goal since March 17th.
It was only his sixth goal of 2024 and ended his 189-day scoring drought.
After United’s 2-1 loss to Brighton on August 24th, Alan Shearer was critical of Rashford.
“He’s had two games this season Marcus Rashford and he’s not had one shot at goal”, Shearer said.
It took until yesterday’s 3-0 win for Rashford to register his first shot of the season.
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Speaking last night, Shearer doubled down on his harsh judgement of Rashford.
“I don’t think [the criticism] has be unfair”, he said.
When asked if Rashford has been unfairly singled out by the media, Shearer denied any such notion.
“No, it’s because of the standards he has set”, he responded.
“We saw him score, two seasons ago, over 30 goals. We know he can do it, you want to see that on a more regular basis.”
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Ten Hag was quick to jump to his player’s defence after the first wave of criticism, following United’s loss to Brighton.
“Everyone gets criticism from you guys, it doesn’t matter what we are doing, if we are winning or if we are losing.”
“I was very happy with Rashy in pre-season, against Fulham and also against Brighton.”
After he netted his first of the season yesterday, Ten Hag further expressed his faith in Rashford.
“Once the first is in, more is coming”, he said.
Rashford has not gone two consecutive seasons without scoring 10 or more Premier League goals since 2017/18.
Last season, it took Rashford four games to score his first goal of the season, but did not score again until matchweek 13.
After scoring in matchweek four again, United will hope the same fate does not befall him this season.
They approach their busiest stretch of the campaign so far, with four games to play in the next two weeks.
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