🏴 Rio Ngumoha completed the most dribbles (3) and won the most duels (6) on his England debut tonight.
- 92% passes completed (24/26)
- 2 tackles won
- 40 touches in 45 minutes
Looked very lively while playing on the right-wing 👀
he accepted that if the club doesn’t want his services anymore. He’s opened to a new challenge. He didn’t even outrightly say he wanted to leave. People started pushing agenda that he wanted out of the club because we were in a bad place. He played a whole season with a back injury just to help the club but let’s ignore all that
The number of excuses people gave the attackers we’ve had the last 2-3 years is hilarious considering they are not not even half as patient with or showed the talent or consistency Martial and Rashford had — even when they were teenagers!
I wish we had them in our squad now
It was against this backdrop that Rashford spoke about a “new challenge”.
It was a statement of acceptance - the club had been trying to shift him since the season prior let alone this coordinated media smear campaign that season