{"id":1090579,"date":"2019-05-26T12:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T11:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1090579"},"modified":"2019-05-26T12:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T11:42:37","slug":"marcus-rashford-arsenal-premier-league-aubameyang","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/marcus-rashford-arsenal-premier-league-aubameyang\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford names Arsenal&#8217;s Golden Boot winner as his fastest Premier League opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marcus Rashford has named Arsenal&#8217;s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang as his fastest Premier League opponent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Aubameyang scored 22 Premier League goals for the fifth-placed Gunners last season, leaving him tied with Liverpool&#8217;s Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane for the Golden Boot award.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/audioboom.com\/posts\/7266091-the-season-defining-story-from-each-of-europe-s-top-five-leagues<\/p>\n<p>And despite his predatory instincts, many of those goals wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without his pace, which Rashford says he has more of than any other player in the English top flight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For pace, I&#8217;d probably say Aubameyang,&#8221; he told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/btsportfootball\/status\/1132255430841909248\">BT Sport<\/a> as part of their &#8216;Perfect Player&#8217; series. &#8220;I think he&#8217;s one of the quickest that I&#8217;ve played against, going off what the back four say anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His positioning, he&#8217;s always there for the easy goal and as a striker, that&#8217;s the most important thing, to be in a position to score goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The first time I played against him, it was like there were two of him!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>?\u200d\u2642\ufe0f N&#39;Golo Kant\u00e9<br \/>? 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