Marcus Rashford (born 31 October 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
A Manchester United player from the age of seven, he scored two goals on both his first-team debut against Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League in February 2016 and his Premier League debut against Arsenal three days later.
He also scored in his first Manchester derby match, his first EFL Cup match and his first UEFA Champions League match. With United, Rashford has so far won the FA Cup, EFL Cup, FA Community Shield and UEFA Europa League.
Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (born 8 September 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Portugal national team as a midfielder. Fernandes started his career at Serie B side Novara Calcio and soon featured for Udinese and Sampdoria in Serie A.
In 2017, he signed with Sporting CP where he established himself as one of the best players in the Primeira Liga. He was named the LPFP Primeira Liga Player of the Year in both 2017–18 and 2018–19. In the latter season, he also helped Sporting win the Taça de Portugal. A senior international since 2017, Fernandes represented Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Erik ten Hag explains how Cristiano Ronaldo substitution helped Manchester United beat Arsenal
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester United manager Erik ten Hag felt Cristiano Ronaldo's introduction gave them more flexibility in attack as they inflicted a first defeat of the season on Premier League leaders Arsenal.
Ronaldo replaced Jadon Sancho in the 58th minute with United 1-0 up and two minutes later Bukayo Saka drew level. However, Arsenal were only level for six minutes as Marcus Rashford was played in by Bruno Fernandes to regain United's lead and the academy graduate struck again in the 75th minute. Also read: United player ratings vs Arsenal Rashford was relocated to the left wing to accommodate Ronaldo, who had his most productive outing of the season as the centre forward.
When asked what the thinking was behind moving Rashford, Ten Hag said: "It can also do it from the right, you bring in Cristiano Ronaldo as a frontman. "Marcus did as a nine and from the wing, he played like Christian Eriksen, a pressing game, he transferred really good, but we expect from him a way of playing as a striker to be the target, drop in, play over, linking, arriving in the box and scoring goals. "I'm really happy with his performance, it shows his development and room for improvement, but he’s got such great capabilities, I’m happy with him in the team." United have won four consecutive games for the first time since April 2021 and are now only three points off the Premier League summit.
Their European programme begins on Thursday with the visit of Real Sociedad before the trek to Crystal Palace next Sunday. "We have to keep pushing," Ten Hag added. "The attitude and mentality, set high standards every day, we have to do better, there’s a lot of room for improvement from the start of the season, we have to work hard every day and everyone has to
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