Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford has opened up on how Jose Mourinho helped the Red Devils to win more penalties.
Since the appointment of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as United manager, United have more penalties than the majority of Premier League sides, which recently led to an outburst from Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp. Liverpool’s German manager said that United had more penalties in two years than Liverpool did in five and a half under Klopp.
United and England forward Rashford has said that the number of penalties that the club are winning is due to the advice and guidance of current Tottenham Hotspur boss Mourinho, who spent two and a half years at Old Trafford and handed Rashford his big break at his boyhood club.
Rashford has now revealed that United started winning more penalties after the advice of Mourinho, who told the United forwards to be more intelligent inside the penalty area.
"There have been times when we have probably not got penalties,” Rashford told the Manchester Evening News.
"I remember when Jose [Mourinho] was manager, there were five or six times where I should have had a penalty and Jose ended up saying to me: 'if you are not savvy about the way you do it, then you are not going to (get) give(n) it.'
"After that, we started to get a few penalties.
"It was something in terms of development you have to learn that and understand it."
