In Louis van Gaal's time, Rashford and Martial were both the team's proud attackers, known as the "new black double". However, a few years have passed, the two former supernovas have suffered their own disappointments, and Marcus Rashford has been repeatedly criticized by the team's celebrities, and has been ridiculed as a charity ball king who has been "delayed by charity and football".
Positioning is blurry
Years have passed, and whether it is Louis van Gaal, Mourinho, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer or Lonnick, Rashford's positioning is not very clear. With speed, a certain breakthrough ability and finishing power, he sometimes has to play the right forward position; sometimes pull the side to play the winger; the offensive midfielder and auxiliary forward are all positions he has played. However, because his ability is biased towards comprehensive but not top-notch, the managers are biased towards no fixed positioning when using him. Mourinho counter-attacked with him as an arrow; Solskjaer used him as the core of the attack from time to time, but it seems that even Marcus Rashford himself may not know where his best position is.
Rashford is characterized by being a bit awkward, and if he acts as an arrow, although he has the speed of fast release, his shooting is not good enough. If as a winger, he has the speed and ability to pass the first step, but the decision-making at important moments is not good enough, lacks a superior big-picture view, and often pushes and rots; and his fake body and fake action are still quite blunt, and it is difficult for the guards who are slightly familiar with him to be deceived by him. In the case of his teammates, Greenwood's shooter's tactile sense and Martial's torsion technique are some of the more prominent aspects of their abilities, but Rashford doesn't seem to be able to come up with that.
In addition, Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are not coaches who can make great progress in attacking players, and the years they have coached Manchester United seem to have polished Rashford's aura, but in essence, they have not brought him any progress. Mourinho only used him as a counter-attack weapon, and failed to improve the player as much as Guardiola in terms of the big picture and position (see how Sterling's no-ball position improved). Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is very good at handling the relationship between players, but he also uses the players' personal ability and genius on the offensive end, and Manchester United's attack in the past two years is more like an improvisational performance of B Fee, and it is conceivable that Rashford is a little difficult to improve.
Now that Rashford is 24 years old, he is certainly no longer a rising star; although he still has a market value of up to 85 million euros in the transfer market, we all know that this figure is really inaccurate. Lonnick must help Rashford find his own position as soon as possible before he can unleash his potential; otherwise such a "new star" will be wasted.