According to Manchester United’s interim manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford need to score the relatively easy tap-ins more consistently in order to emulate the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo.
The Red Devils head coach said, “That [emulating Ronaldo] is up to any player if you make a decision on how to develop your own career. Cristiano was the best, the way he’s changed to now. That’s part of any player, you’ve got to model yourself on someone, but you’ve got to have more challenges ahead of you and for Marcus and Anthony it is to score more simple tap-ins.”
“He [Martial] has the capability [to score 20 goals in a season] but I’d like him to make a few more runs in behind because he doesn’t miss chances, he’s a fantastic finisher.”
“He needs to get more chances, you’ve got to read and sniff wherever there’s a chance, maybe some scruffy goals at times. Him and Marcus score loads of worldly goals but those tap-ins and making them runs could go a long way to do that.”
Both Rashford and Martial have been fighting for game time ever since the duo met at Old Trafford. However, Solskjaer believes there is no reason why both of them cannot feature in the same lineup every game.
“Yeah, it’s healthy competition but they can also create a relationship and get an understanding of each other because both are very good coming in off the left,” added Solskjaer.
“If one plays central then it’s opposite movements because they go out to in, but when they play central they go in to out, so in the coming years we’ll see loads of combinations between those two.”
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