{"id":472241,"date":"2023-12-08T13:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472241"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:21:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T17:21:17","slug":"ten-hag-rashford-must-prove-that-he-deserves-to-start","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/ten-hag-rashford-must-prove-that-he-deserves-to-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Hag: \u2018Rashford must prove that he deserves to start\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Devils attacker Marcus Rashford will get back into the club\u2019s starting 11 when he shows that he is ready for that, head coach Erik ten Hag shared today.<\/p>\n<p>Rashford was benched in the team\u2019s 2-1 victory against Chelsea at Old Trafford two days ago after a bad performance in the loss vs. Newcastle the past weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udd34 Ten Hag on Rashford: \u201cI\u2019m not gonna change my idea. He\u2019s an incredible, good player\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can&#8217;t play every game \u2014 he&#8217;s not in this moment in the form he was last year but I am sure Marcus will get there\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mqFgUBWOc2\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/mqFgUBWOc2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1733123072687816762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The forward has struggled for form all campaign, netting just 2 goals in 19 matches. Manchester United&#8217;s manager claimed he has to earn the right to play from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> minute again as he gave an example of what \u00a0Harry Maguire and Scott McTominay did to return to the starting 11 after being also dropped by the Dutch head coach in the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rashford is an elite forward,&#8221; Ten Hag shared with the media ahead of their match vs. Bournemouth.\u201d However, Erik added that he could choose only 11 footballers to be on the field in each match, and Marcus couldn\u2019t appear in each game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Devils attacker Marcus Rashford will get back into the club\u2019s starting 11 when he shows that he is ready for that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":472242,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17534,16789,17231,17317],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[17559,18342,17886,8457],"acf":{"announce":"Manchester United boss claimed that Marcus must earn his starting spot.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472245,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472241\/revisions\/472245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472241"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472241"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}