Showing posts with label Rashford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rashford. Show all posts
Friday, 4 October 2024
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WHICH MAN UNITED PLAYER WOULD GET INTO MAN CITY''S SQUAD?
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| Kobbie Mainoo would catch Pep Guardiola's eye, while Marcus Rashford might just make it as well. James Gill - Danehouse/Getty Images |
New minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has a three-year plan to restore Manchester United to a position of dominance over Manchester City. There's nothing wrong with ambition and bold targets, but reality sometimes gets in the way. Sunday's 3-1 derby defeat against Pep Guardiola's team showed the Everest-sized mountain United must climb to do so.
United are not even a genuine rival to City right now. Since last winning the Premier League title in 2013, United have failed to finish above their neighbours in the league and while City have won 15 major honours in that time, including the Champions League, United have mustered just four by winning two EFL Cups, an FA Cup and Europa League.
This season alone, United sit a full 18 points behind City in the league, while suffering 11 defeats to City's three. City have scored 62 goals; United have 37. Embarrassingly for Erik ten Hag's side, they also have a goal difference of -2, despite the apparent wealth of attacking talent in the Old Trafford squad.
Yet if you turn back the clock to 2008, when Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan completed his takeover of City with promises to transform a club that had suffered more relegations (five) than trophies won (zero) since lifting the EFL Cup in 1976, the picture was even bleaker for City. They were dismissed as a "small club with a small mentality" by Sir Alex Ferguson and mocked as "noisy neighbours" by the United manager, who also said "not in my lifetime" when asked whether City could ever topple his club to become the top team in Manchester.
Back then, not a single City player would be deemed good enough to merit a place in United's matchday squad. The gulf was that big. But times have changed in Manchester, emphatically so, and the challenge facing Ratcliffe -- whose Ineos group has now taken charge of football operations at Old Trafford after buying a 27.7% stake in the club from majority owners, the Glazer family -- is to affect a shift in the balance of power that makes United competitive again.
Thursday, 9 November 2023
RASHFORD RED CARD 'CHANGED EVERYTHING' FOR MAN UNITED - TEN HAG
COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Erik ten Hag criticized the first-half red card for Marcus Rashford -- which the Manchester United coach said "changed everything" -- as his team surrendered a 2-0 lead to lose 4-3 against FC Copenhagen.
United are now bottom of Champions League Group A having suffered their third defeat in four games. They must now beat Galatasaray in Istanbul later this month and Bayern Munich at Old Trafford in their final game to have a realistic chance of reaching the round of 16.
But after racing into an early lead through two Rasmus Hojlund goals, United's night turned sour when Rashford was sent off following the intervention of VAR for a 42nd-minute foul on Elias Jelert.
Rashford caught the Copenhagen player on the shin with the sole of his boot and was shown a red card by referee Donatas Rumsas, but Ten Hag called the decision "harsh."
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