{"id":1139924,"date":"2020-04-20T10:39:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1139924"},"modified":"2020-04-20T10:39:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:39:37","slug":"man-utd-rashford-greenwood-best-homegrown-strikers-little","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/man-utd-rashford-greenwood-best-homegrown-strikers-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Utd coach names Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood as England&#8217;s &#8220;best homegrown strikers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Manchester United academy coach Colin Little has named Red Devils duo Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood as the &#8220;best homegrown strikers in the country&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having made his breakthrough in 2016 under Louis van Gaal, Rashford has established himself as a regular in the England international set-up and one of the most feared forwards in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How good are Rashford and Greenwood? Five things to know&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Rashford has scored a career-high 19 goals across all competitions this season.<\/li>\n<li>Greenwood, meanwhile, has 12 despite being just 18 years old.<\/li>\n<li>Little has described the pair as the &#8220;best homegrown strikers in the country&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>He places them ahead of the likes of Harry Kane and Tammy Abraham.<\/li>\n<li>Kane has scored 17 goals in all competitions this season, while Abraham has 15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; max-width: 700px;\" title=\"Audioboom player\" src=\"https:\/\/embeds.audioboom.com\/posts\/7533381\/embed\/v4\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Before injury curtailed the 22-year-old&#8217;s campaign, Rashford managed 14 goals in 22 Premier League appearances and 19 overall &#8212; both career highs.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood, meanwhile, has scored an impressive 12 goals for United in all competitions this season and has been described as the club&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/man-utd-team-news-astana-greenwood-start-solskjaer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">best finisher<\/a> in the past by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ahead of the likes of Rashford and Anthony Martial, despite being just 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1139925\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map.png 1080w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map-66x65.png 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140406\/1139924_1139924_player_shot-placement-map-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That said, the likes of Harry Kane, Tammy Abraham and Dominic Calvert-Lewin have all had fine individual spells, but Little maintains that Rashford and Greenwood top the list of homegrown talents in England, highlighting just how remarkable it is for United to have two of them at the same club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly think you can\u2019t look at any team and think there are any two better homegrown strikers in the country,\u201d he told<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.manutd.com\/en\/news\/detail\/man-utd-academy-must-be-proud-of-rashford-and-greenwood-says-little\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MUTV<\/a>. \u201cTammy Abraham and Harry Kane are really good strikers but we\u2019ve got two on our books right now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout blowing our own trumpet, that\u2019s just incredible isn\u2019t it? Both are still young, both are Manchester United kids from an early age. It\u2019s why, but for anything else, if they were the two people who come out of this academy, you would be like \u2018wow\u2019. I mean what are forwards worth nowadays? People who score goals \u2013 at that age?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1139926\" src=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1.png 1080w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1-66x65.png 66w, https:\/\/media.squawka.com\/images\/en\/2020\/04\/18140617\/1139924_1139924_list_ranking-x-5-1-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re looking at it, thinking what an incredible asset to have, and you\u2019ve got the other ones like Brandon Williams and James Garner, and others, behind them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a testament to everybody and, let\u2019s be honest with you, from all the way down with Eamon Mulvey\u2019s group, all the way through, those players have gone through every single age group. From Tony Whelan, and everybody is where they are now. I mean, they could be in our first team for nearly 20 years. It can be a 20-year career from 18 to 38.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United academy coach Colin Little has named Red Devils duo Marcus Rashford and Mason Greenwood as the &#8220;best homegrown strikers in the country&#8221;. 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