Manchester United winger Alejandro Garnacho inadvertently revealed his dream to win the FA Cup last month when the Reds travelled to West Ham.
18.05.2023 - 10:59 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
It's perhaps fitting that Anthony Martial's most prolific run of form for Manchester United came in the behind-closed-doors Covid season. If no fans were in the ground, did it really happen?
The United striker hit six in seven as football resumed following a three-month pandemic-enforced break in 2020. It included a hat-trick against Sheffield United during a period where he looked the electrifying prospect he's long been touted as.
The run also included a goal at this weekend's opponents Bournemouth but since that summer's day nearly three years ago only 10 more Premier League goals have followed. Martial has been hit by injury absence after injury absence, breaking down more than a Morris Minor.
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United could look to cash-in on the 27-year-old in the summer as he enters the final 12 months of his Old Trafford contract still short of providing the answers to questions that have blighted his career in M16.
His strike at Wolves last time out maintained an impressive goals-per-minutes ratio but the minutes have been far too infrequent. With Marcus Rashford having only just returned to training, the France international will be seeking to add to his season tally on the south coast this weekend.
Four years on from his last outing at the Vitality Stadium, where United fell to a drab 1-0 defeat under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, the then-United chief had raised the prospect of Martial finally fulfilling his promise.
“I don’t think he’s had a long, long run of games as a No.9 since he played many years ago as a young boy,” the Norwegian said in the build-up to United's last trip to Bournemouth. "You have to be obsessed with scoring goals as a No.9
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