The Red Devils boss believes he can bring more out of the forward if his side start playing to the obvious strengths of the England international
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has revealed his blueprint for bringing the best out of Marcus Rashford at Manchester United.
The arrival of a new manager at Old Trafford has offered a clean slate to all of those who had grown frustrated with life under Jose Mourinho.
Paul Pogba is flourishing after being granted more freedom, with the Red Devils full of goals again after a period of supposedly defensive favouritism under a Portuguese coach.
Rashford is among those hoping to rediscover a spark which was lost amid regular spells on the bench, and he netted the first goal of a new era in a 5-1 mauling of Cardiff.
Solskjaer believes he can fully unlock the undoubted potential of a 21-year-old forward, with plans being put in place which will see United play to the England international’s strengths.
The interim Red Devils boss told TV2 after seeing Rashford draw a blank in a 3-1 victory over Huddersfield: “What we can do with him is use him more, because I don't think the team is used to his runs.
“If you just watch him, the amount of runs and the good runs he makes in second half when we're 2-0 up and 3-0 up and he makes runs in behind and he gets in behind the defence.
“We must look for his runs earlier. His speed is his strength. I'm going to work with him on his finishing. He's just got to calm down a little bit.
“He's got a great strike from outside the box and inside the box we'll just keep on working on being cool and calm and pass it past the keeper.”
Solskjaer believes the system he favours will work in Rashford’s favour, with there a desire on his part to get more out of his wide men – both attacking forwards and overlapping full-backs.
He added: “My philosophy is you've got to have width.
“So today you've got Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard wide, but they're more comfortable coming in, then the full-backs need to go.
“It's different when you've got [Anthony] Martial or you've got [Marcus] Rashford wide, someone who likes to play one-against-one. So it depends.
“But yes I'd like my full-backs to come, that's more and more in, for me, in modern football, it's important in modern football to get the full-backs flying on.”
Having opened his reign with back-to-back wins, Solskjaer will be looking to making it three in a row when United play host to Bournemouth on Sunday.
yomadns
70
I think lukaku should exit the club.I don't think lukaku will become our best striker.we can use Sanchez or rashford.
RazeTSKnightfury
56
We really needed this earlier at the starting of the season... I used to tell many that the players we have a way too fantastic to play the modern games cause I remember ferg never used to have world class players but he believed in his philosophy in the players, most of them were young players but still we would beat the hell out of big teams and this is what is happening now,we have players capable of everything even though Mourinho's wanted very big names in the team which is not the case in winning games. It doesn't matter if you have big players or young players but if your treatment, tarctics and motivation sucks towards your players then expect losses through out and solskjaer is completely doing what was suppose to be done to the players which mourinho never did. Am just glad we can now sitback and enjoy the ride with these young legends in front of us leading us.
zeoabilmyz
53
Rashford will surely become Solskjaer of our time under OGS guidance
El-kap
38
this is what mourinho would never say... he'd rather come out to criticize him and a couple of players! he lacks motivating his players even when they needed him most
Keebdknosu
34
personally I think united has a squad to dominate England n terrorise Europe bt all they need is a manager who plays to their strengths n has a good man management skill Martial obviously had too much for Christmas than he was supposed to but the coach came out claiming he was sick. that's covering up the player from unnecessary attention n criticism. it makes the player feel secured n happy n in return he will run through walls for that manager. his talking of playing to players strengths n keeping them happy n improving. I just hope Jose has his pen n paper to b getting notes on modern management from this guy. we won't win every day but if the players are happy n are improving it's just a matter of time under Jose it was a matter of if not when
Willy1999
31
We hope to see more out of you and your boys. Keep it up Red Devils