Rashford still hopeful Man Utd 'can do something special' despite inconsistent start to 2020-21 campaign

Marcus Rashford says he is nonetheless hopeful Manchester United “can do one thing particular” in 2020-21 regardless of their inconsistent begin to the marketing campaign.

United supporters have been taken on a rollercoaster trip within the early levels of the brand new season, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s facet proving to be some of the unpredictable groups in European soccer.

The Crimson Devils have suffered damaging defeats in opposition to Crystal Palace, Tottenham and Arsenal within the Premier League, whereas additionally dropping three of their six Champions League group stage fixtures.

The Previous Trafford outfit finally exited the continental competitors following a Three-2 loss at RB Leipzig on Tuesday, which put additional strain on Solskjaer to ship a constructive end result on this weekend’s derby showdown against Manchester City.

United are at the moment sitting seventh within the top-flight standings with at the very least one recreation in hand on all six groups above them, and a win over their native rivals might put them ready to mount a practical title problem.

Rashford nonetheless believes within the squad, and has instructed that choosing up main silverware come Might stays a practical aim, as he informed MUTV: “I feel it’s nonetheless, with how the league has been going, approach too early to be wanting on the desk actually.

“I don’t even know the place we have been three video games in the past in comparison with the place we at the moment are and all it takes is a few wins and groups may be up and down.

“We’ll take it one recreation at a time to attempt to decide up factors and see the place we’re a bit afterward within the season. However I imagine within the group, within the supervisor and the employees, so, hopefully, we will nonetheless do one thing particular this season.”

Nonetheless, he additionally acknowledges the truth that outcomes have fallen in need of expectations in current months, and has urged his team-mates to discover a approach of digging out wins extra usually when not taking part in at their greatest.

“I might put us up there within the high three or 4 most harmful groups within the league. For us, it’s nearly discovering that constant degree of efficiency actually,” Rashford added.

“Typically, there have been instances we’ve not performed properly and gained video games and, when you’re going to do one thing particular within the league this 12 months, we have to try this much more. You realize you’re not going to play at your greatest each single recreation but it surely doesn’t imply you lose or draw the sport. There’s all the time a solution to win the sport and we’ve got to seek out that extra.

“Hear – we’re a younger group, we’re recent, we’re sturdy and, yeah, there’s no cause… United all the time end strongly. I really feel that’s one factor Ole introduced with him when he got here to United, simply that understanding, understanding the membership, understanding what it’s and what it stands for. By no means giving up is correct on the high of that listing and we’ve proven it on numerous events. We now have to proceed to try this.”

Requested if he expects Sunday’s conflict with Metropolis to be a cagey affair with a a lot on the road for each groups, Rashford responded: “No, I feel we’ll get probabilities. You realize that’s one factor we’ve improved loads on – we’re getting much more probabilities in video games in comparison with a few seasons in the past.

“I feel, as gamers, we imagine that we’re going to get a possibility to attain a aim and, when it comes to perception, that’s an enormous factor.

“So we, as forwards, when the sport is tight, we’ve got much more confidence now than we did two or three years in the past, that we’re going to get a possibility at aim to attain and win the sport for the group. So I really feel like we’ve got much more threats, even from set-pieces, we’re much more threatening than we’ve got been up to now. There are much more methods we will rating targets.

“We’ve received loads that we will convey to the desk, as do they, and it’s going to be an attention-grabbing recreation, undoubtedly a tactical recreation; and it’s a Manchester derby so something can occur.

“Hopefully, we’ll get everybody match. If we do have everybody match, we’ve got the very best probability of successful the sport. It’s been a miss not having Edi [Edinson Cavani] and Anto [Anthony Martial] within the group, however hopefully they’ll come again for this recreation and undoubtedly give us much more firepower going ahead.”