Manchester United supervisor Erik ten Hag has hit again at Alan Shearer’s “silly” evaluation of Marcus Rashford’s performances thus far this season.
Rashford, 26, is but to attain this time period and was substituted after 65 minutes of the 2-1 defeat at Brighton on 24 August.
Analysing Rashford’s kind on Match of the Day following the loss on the south coast, Alan Shearer stated: “He is had two video games this season Marcus Rashford and he isn’t had one shot at objective.
“Fifty-seven targets they [Man Utd] scored final season. That was the worst within the high half. Ruud van Nistelrooy has been introduced into there. He’ll need to work his magic one way or the other.”
Requested in regards to the feedback as he spoke to the media earlier than his facet’s Premier League encounter with Liverpool at Outdated Trafford, Ten Hag was forceful in his response.
“Everybody will get criticism from you guys, it does not matter what we’re doing, if we’re profitable or if we’re shedding,” he stated.
“If I take a participant off, the conclusion is I used to be not pleased with him. However I used to be very pleased with Rashy in pre-season, in opposition to Fulham [in the opening game] and in addition in opposition to Brighton.
“I did not take him off as a result of his performances or stage weren’t proper – no, we needed to rotate as a result of we now have good gamers on the bench who deliver new power.
“There will probably be rotation. Then there may be the conclusion the participant isn’t performing. It may be typically however positively it wasn’t on this case. On this case, it was silly evaluation from the pundit.”
Rashford’s solely objective throughout United’s pre-season tour was a penalty in a win in opposition to Actual Betis in San Diego.
He scored simply eight occasions in all competitions final season, along with his final aggressive objective for the membership coming throughout an FA Cup win in opposition to Liverpool on 17 March.
Rashford, who was ignored of England’s Euro 2024 squad, was omitted from Lee Carsley’s first Three Lions squad as interim supervisor for Nations League fixtures in September.
United host Liverpool at Outdated Trafford on Sunday (16:00 BST kick-off) however will probably be with out striker Rasmus Hojlund, who remains to be three weeks away from health following a hamstring damage.