No penalty, no party! Got Rashford, Solskjaer believes MU will get a lot of penalty prizes

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer praised Marcus Rashford's courage to take a penalty when Manchester United hosted Leicester City in the fifth week of the 2019/20 Premier League on Saturday (09/14/2019).

Rashford's penalty proved to be the only goal of the match, with Manchester United thin 1-0.

Previously, Rashford could not take advantage of the situation after the defeat of Manchester United, some time ago, Crystal Palace. There was also a problem about Manchester United's main penalty enforcer when Rashford deliberately gave the ball to Paul Pogba (vs Wolverhampton).

Solskjaer himself was criticized for claiming to have deliberately left the two players free to make their own decisions. Not having the main sentence executor is considered a source of MU problems.

Despite this, Rashford was able to do his job well.


Punishment practice

Solskjaer said he never doubted Rashford's ability to take the penalty kick. It seems that the incident of interference with Pogba prompted Solskjaer to determine the first executioner.

"He [Rashford] was trained in penalties and he can do it in two ways, he can hit the middle of the field, he is calm and we will get more penalties, no need to hesitate," he said. Solskjaer on Manutd.com.

"Because we have fast players in the opponent's penalty area, and with VAR now, you are less likely to get a penalty - even if we don't get all the penalties that need to be dropped."


Never failed
In addition, Solskjaer also talked about the mentality of Rashford who failed to shoot a penalty. For him, missed penalties are not a problem, but the courage to try again is important.

"Every striker fails to score a penalty, I see [Diego] Maradona and [Lionel] Messi fail, I see Platini in the match against Brazil and Zico - my favorite player of all time - fails in the same match," added Solskjaer. .

"You just have to be confident to wake up next time, what's the worst that can happen?" the lid.

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