Rashford Wants Momentum In 2nd Season

Marcus Rashford has four goals from seven Manchester United appearances this season and the 18-year-old is glad to have momentum following a spectacular emergence last campaign.

The last of those goals was scored against Premier League champions Leicester City on Saturday and Rashford gave an exclusive interview to the matchday programme at Old Trafford, discussing his outstanding breakthrough into the first team in 2015/16 and his desire to kick on this term.

“A lot of things happened last season and it is now behind me,” Marcus told United Review. “It was last season. I have to try and recreate those moments this year and to get the goal early in the season was quite important for me to get back on a roll. I am just looking to build momentum now.”

Rashford’s first goal of the season was netted at Hull City on 27 August when the Academy graduate came off the bench to fire the winner in added time before celebrating with the travelling fans in the away end. Interestingly, he described that strike as the “most important” of his flourishing career.

“It was a different moment for me and I don’t think I’ve scored one so late in the game before,” he stated. “It was an amazing feeling to be with the travelling fans as well, a brilliant feeling. It was instinct to go into the crowd in moments like that. You don’t think about it, you just do it!

“I feel like that was the most important goal for me, to get the winner in the last minute away from home. I like the feeling that it gave me and I want more. But on an emotional side the debut goal against Midtjylland is still at the top of the list for me.”

While discussing goals with United’s emerging marksman, it would have been rude not to ask him about his memorable winner in the Manchester derby at the Etihad Stadium last March. Unsurprisingly, he has fond and detailed memories about that 1-0 success against City.

“In the game it was quite even so it could have gone either way,” he said. “We were attacking and then they were attacking. I think they had a bit more of the ball but they weren’t really threatening us. There were two times before the goal when I got on a one-v-one with him [Martin Demichelis] and he just nicked the ball off me. I knew what I needed to do the next time I got the ball so I did it.

“Then I was against the keeper [Joe Hart] and it was just about relaxing, composing myself and that was what I did. After it went in, the fans were too far away but it was a good feeling with everyone coming towards you. To win the game 1-0 as well, to hold out as a team was great.”