Alan Shearer explains Marcus Rashford criticism after goalscoring efficiency
Premier League legend Alan Shearer has refused to again down from current Marcus Rashford criticism, however was impressed with how the ahead carried out in Manchester United’s win over Southampton within the membership’s most up-to-date outing on the weekend.
Rashford scored his first objective of the season within the 3-0 victory at St Mary’s within the type of polished efficiency from Erik ten Hag’s crew that had arguably been missing to date in 2024/25.
The participant himself has come underneath appreciable fireplace for his kind because the starting of final season, having suffered a sudden downturn since plundering 30 objectives throughout 2022/23.
Shearer, scorer of a document 260 Premier League objectives, recommended that criticism of Rashford has been justified, however that it is not warranted if he continues to carry out as he did at Southampton.
“I would not change something that I’ve stated,” Shearer stated on The Relaxation is Soccer, responding to Gary Lineker mentioning that Rashford has been upset by criticism he considers unfair.
“He is set his personal very excessive requirements, you recognize? He is an excellent participant – he is on an enormous contract at Manchester United and he hasn’t performed in addition to he can do or has achieved prior to now. And when that’s the case – at a giant soccer membership if you’re a giant title – you are going to get criticised.
“And he did – however he does not get criticised for performances like [against Southampton], you recognize? When he is monitoring again and operating, and taking gamers on and scoring his objective. He seemed a very good participant. He is now obtained to try this for the remainder of the season.”
Rashford’s drop in kind final season culminated in being omitted of England’s squad for Euro 2024 throughout the summer time, failing even to earn a spot on the bigger provisional checklist.
“There is a cause why he wasn’t within the England squad,” Shearer continued.
“It isn’t simply the pundits who had been vital of him. Different gamers have overtaken him from the place he was a few years in the past and there is not any doubt that there is the expertise in there, however that needs to be a daily. That needs to be each single week, and never simply in opposition to Southampton because it was. After which he will not get criticised. Fairly easy is not it?”
