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Manchester United must become much more solid defensively if their misfiring attack is to start performing, believes Mikael Silvestre.
United have struggled in recent weeks with results now matching their poor performances under Ralf Rangnick, with their last two outings being a loss to Wolves and a draw to Aston Villa.
Goals have been particularly hard to come by, with United only scoring more than once in the German's eight games in charge on two occasions as the club's expensively assembled forward line's struggles continue.
Marcus Rashford and Jadon Sancho are yet to score under Rangnick, while Cristiano Ronaldo, Mason Greenwood, Bruno Fernandes and Edinson Cavani have just six goals between them.
A lack of creative spark has been a huge problem for Rangnick so far and Silvestre believes the answer lies in making the team more defensively sound.
"It's difficult to point at exactly the issues there because for some players it's a lack of confidence, for some of them it's a lack of energy because they have been overused or overplayed," he told MEN Sport, in association with Slingo.
"At the end of the day, because of the balance of the team hasn't been good and when you're conceding goals you're not committing fully to going forward, you're concerned about protecting your goal.
"So once the structure in the team is more solid then going forward there should be an improvement. Bruno was tired, he had a dip in form, against Villa he had a big influence.
"It's a number of things, there's no correlation between those things, but you add those things and that's why at the moment it's not clicking. So work and time will help the things to settle."
One player who is particularly struggling lately is Rashford. The forward
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Wiley following the rapper’s antisemitism controversy.Back in 2020, Wiley faced backlash after making anti-Semitic comments that led to his eventual suspension from social media sites. He began the tweets by talking about the music industry, writing: “A record deal is not to benefit you it’s to make the person who gave you the advance rich as hell while you take 17 or 18 per cent of net profit after costs.”He continued: “If you work for a company owned by 2 Jewish men and you challenge the Jewish community in anyway of course you will get fired.”This week, the Jewish Chronicle posted an article featuring an image of Rashford and fellow Manchester United player Jesse Lingard partying with Wiley in Dubai, which gained backlash online.England footballers pictured partying with disgraced rapper Wiley https://t.co/khv2CNRBaj— The Jewish Chronicle (@JewishChron) January 25, 2022In response, Rashford tweeted yesterday (January 25): “This picture has been brought to my attention which I understand now, given context, could easily be misconstrued.
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