Izuchukwu OkosiErik ten Hag lavished praises on Manchester United’s in-form forward Marcus Rashford for his intuition and challenged the rest of the Manchester United forwards to conjure up “crazy stuff” in the final third.
Rashford scored his 10th goal in as many games in the sixth minute of United’s 3-0 League Cup semi-final first-leg win at Nottingham Forest when he scored one of three goals
The England international scored one of the two goals by United on Sunday in their 3-0 loss to Arsenal.
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Since the club season resumed, Rashford has only failed to score in one game and he is already four goals shy of his season-best tally of 22 from the 2019-20 campaign.
“There are more players who are playing really well but I am happy with Marcus’s performance and his development,” Erik Ten Hag said at his post-match conference.
“From the start of the season he is growing and he keeps doing that and what we have to aim for with him, and he is responsible for that, is to keep this process going. If he is in this mood, this spirit he is unstoppable and it’s about the team to get him in the right positions.
“Also, in possession, we have a plan but finally is also the intuition, the creativity of an individual like Rashy is to create chances.
“We have some of it like Rashy, Bruno (Fernandes), Antony definitely as well, Jadon Sancho is one, (Anthony) Martial is one. We need such type of players. Christian Eriksen, don’t forget him.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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