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Paul Clarke & Elliott Jackson

Alan Shearer agrees with Solskjaer's Marcus Rashford Manchester United advice

Former England star Alan Shearer has offered up advice to Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford on the key area where he needs to improve.

Rashford has made a strong start to the 2019/20 season, bagging seven goals in all competitions.

But the 22-year-old was subdued during United's 1-0 defeat at Bournemouth on Saturday afternoon which ended a run of four unbeaten games for the club.

Shearer , formerly of Newcastle, was on hand to analyse the United game in the Match of the Day studio on Saturday evening and he had an important piece of advice for Rashford.

"Other than the first five minutes and the last five minutes where they showed some urgency, I thought they were woeful going forwards," Shearer told the BBC.

"They were chasing the game, particularly in the second half. You’ve got (Anthony) Martial and Rashford, the guys you’re looking at to get you back into the game, not one of them in the box, both in a similar position. The ball can’t go in the box because there is nobody in the box so that was a little bit easier for Bournemouth than it should be.

"If Rashford wants to score more goals and I’m sure he does, this has to improve. That killer instinct. Once Scott McTominay is getting ready to pull the trigger, his thought has to be, get in there for the rebound because he’s got to expect him to spill it.

“If he moves, he gets a tap in, it’s a simple goal if he wants to sniff out little chances like that. You can learn from that because his reaction is to not go in and get the tap in. You can definitely teach that.”

Shearer's advice is scarily similar to that of the guidance Solskjaer offered the forward earlier this season. 

The United boss urged Rashford to score uglier goals, get in on the end of tap-ins and increase his goal count.

"It’s about those scrappy goals now," said Solskjaer back in September.

"We have young players and they’ve got to learn to score those nasty little tap-ins that I did. They count just as much."

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