Manchester United's top scorer this season, Marcus Rashford, has provided insight on how he was able to recover from a disastrous campaign last season and start firing on all cylinders under Erik Ten Hag.
The 25-year-old was a shadow of his former self last campaign after he only made 7 goal contributions throughout the previous season. His poor performance was compounded with a reoccurring shoulder injury, which made him very annoying to watch on the pitch.
This season, he hasn't been the same player as he already surpassed his best goalscoring tally in a Manchester United shirt as well as Cristiano Ronaldo's 24 goals across all competitions last campaign.
His form has improved drastically since the World Cup, and he has found himself becoming a reference among the best in Europe and when legends of Manchester United are being mentioned.
Marcus Rashford has stated it was down to being 100 percent fit, and also the change in management was key to him finding his current form.
"I think probably the main thing is that [when] I came into the season, I was 100 percent fit," he replied to the media during the team's press conference alongside team manager Erik Ten Hag.
"I had a good training camp in the summer with my team before the pre-season. And then when I met up for the preseason, it was obviously a change because we had a new manager, new staff, and a new way of playing. "And it was exciting."
"To me, I just wanted to give everything I could, and I’ve just not looked back since then." I feel like we’ve come a long way as a team, and our style of play has helped us win big games. It’s been a while since I could sit here and say that.
"Yes, we’ve beaten big teams in the past and we’ve won big games, but we’ve always had to do it a different way than how we’d prefer to do it. "This season, we’ve gone out and tried our best to play our style of football and try to win games," he explained.
The press as well as the academy graduate quizzed him about the disappointing loss at Anfield on Sunday. He admitted himself and his teammates should have done better while also complaining about how he failed to convert the best chance Man United had to go 1-0 up in the first half.
"I feel like, just touching on the Liverpool game, Liverpool versus United is a unique game." It doesn’t matter about form; it doesn’t matter about individuals’ forms. "It's a special game of football that is just decided in the 90, 95 minutes that you’re on the pitch," he said.
"Going in at halftime, it could have been a different game." I missed the chance on Luke’s pass at 0-0. That could have been 1-0. "We had two or three other opportunities, and we probably should have gone into half-time leading."
"But we weren’t; we were down 1-0. We weren’t in a bad position. We felt that we could still go out there and create chances in the second half. But it's Liverpool; they can take the game away from you, and that is what happened.
"Like the boss said, it’s about resetting now." That’s all we can do. There’s no point in dwelling on what happened because we can’t change it. "So we just press the reset button, go back to the basics, and give 100 percent again to try and win the game on Thursday," he added.
News circulating the internet suggests that Manchester United's players gave up during the game, which resulted in the backlash from Liverpool. Marcus Rashford called such notions "nonsense," however, he believes he and his teammates lost communication during the game.
"We didn’t give up; that’s nonsense." "We were unorganized," he countered.
"yeah. Communication was bad, yeah. That’s why we conceded the goals. But it comes down to the fact I believe that everyone was trying to get back into the game that much, we came away from the team’s principles in and out of possession."
Marcus Rashford went further to highlight the team's mistake, which led to the 7-0 rout at Anfield.
"I mentioned it after the game; I felt like the forwards were just trying to press as a forward unit; we weren’t connected with the midfield." And then it's the same with the midfield and the defense. We were trying to get a grip on the game when it was 2-0 and when it was 3-0. "We were talking, but I don’t think we were really in agreement about what to do."
"Listen, it’s happened, and the only thing we can do is learn from it and move on." "I'm happy and grateful that we have another game so quickly because we have an opportunity to take a step forward from the last game and put it behind us," he asserted.
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