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da 888： Speaking on Match of the Day, Alan Shearer has urged Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford to improve his “killer instinct”.
What did he say?
The England international had endured a miserable start to the current campaign, going on a run of just one goal in seven Premier League matches at one point.
His form had started to pick up in recent games, scoring against Liverpool, Norwich and Chelsea in quick succession. However, the 22-year-old suffered a poor afternoon against Bournemouth on Saturday afternoon, registering no shots on target as United slumped to a 1-0 defeat.
Now, Shearer has demanded Rashford learn to sniff out chances in the box, and score more goals within the width of the penalty area.
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He said (as quoted by The Manchester Evening News): “They were chasing the game, particularly in the second half. You’ve got (Anthony) Martial and Rashford, the guys you’re looking at to get you back into the game, not one of them in the box, both in a similar position. The ball can’t go in the box because there is nobody in the box so that was a little bit easier for Bournemouth than it should be.
“If Rashford wants to score more goals and I’m sure he does, this has to improve. That killer instinct. Once Scott McTominay is getting ready to pull the trigger, his thought has to be, get in there for the rebound because he’s got to expect him to spill it. If he moves, he gets a tap in, it’s a simple goal if he wants to sniff out little chances like that. You can learn from that because his reaction is to not go in and get the tap in. You can definitely teach that.”
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As his current manager at Old Trafford used to make a living out of, scoring those scrappy tap-ins is an art that strikers simply have to master. Indeed, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer himself insisted his forwards simply has to improve his instincts inside the box.
“It’s about those scrappy goals now. We have young players and they’ve got to learn to score those nasty little tap-ins that I did. They count just as much.”
Instead of having to rely on wonder-strikes like his mesmeric free-kick against Chelsea, or even scoring from penalties, finding the back of the net from those chances that people seem to under-appreciate is the key to United scoring more than their measly 13 goals in 11 Premier League games.