Erik ten Hag wants a new striker this summer and the French forward will need to do more to secure his place at the club
This was Martial: remember him? Or, rather, remember the last time he started and ended a match? If the answer is no, that is understandable: before tonight you had to scroll back through 19 months and four managers – Ten Hag, Ralf Rangnick, Michael Carrick and Ole Gunnar Solskjær – to Wednesday 22 September 2021 to find the last time Martial completed 90 minutes for the club, when he played all of a Carabao Cup defeat to West Ham.
. If ill fortune is the true factor, there are those who ponder whether a questionable mentality that leaves him open to regular sicknotes is actually at play.through injury made Sevilla’s visit the apt time for a brave new Martial world in which he could prove a robust force who could be relied on to replace United’s top scorer.
A favourite Ten Hag mantra is that “you must still win” whoever is ruled out. He said it last month when Casemiro was given a four-game suspension and again on Wednesday after news emerged about Rashford, United’s 28-goal man, going down. Step forward Martial, to fill the void, and whose seven strikes in 17 previous appearances came at one every 114 minutes, a ratio that rated his finest since joining.
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