Manchester United striker Anthony Martial has returned to the team, but has not yet joined the whole team to practice, and naturally missed the first three warm-up games. The last time he made his appearance for the Red Devils was in the 3-1 FA Cup match against Leicester City in March.
An ankle ligament injury in the following week's World Cup qualifiers, Anthony Martial was reimbursed early last season and has been recuperating from the injury ever since. According to Solskjaer, Martial is currently in Carrington for individual training. "Martial joined us, but he can't train with the whole team yet." "He's recovering from a knee injury and it looks good," Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said.
Earlier, when Martial was nominated as the star player who missed this summer's European Championship, Belgium's Real Madrid goalkeeper Courtois laughed: "Martial? Is he also a star?"
Before moving to Real Madrid, Courtois, although he played for Chelsea, unfortunately did not face Martial directly. He agrees that the missed european cups for the likes of Erlin Haaland and Van Dijk are missing, and Martial, who scored just seven goals in 36 games last season, may not have many regrets.
Martial, who turned 26 at the end of the year, is no longer the young and highly regarded talented player when Manchester United former manager Jose Mourinho was in charge, his popularity at Old Trafford is declining, and if he does not strengthen himself soon, I am afraid he will be eliminated.
Martial's problems have never changed, the brilliance of the moment does not mean eternity, he has always fallen into a slump after a season of excellent performance. When he first arrived in 2015, he was taunted, but scored his debut goal against Liverpool, scoring 17 goals in the season, which made Red Devils fans shout excitedly: "Martial, what a waste of money!" After scoring 23 goals in 2019/20 and becoming the team's top scorer again, people were expecting his combination with Rashford and Mason Greenwood.
However, the result was the exhaustion of Martial's goals last season, and he scored many times, resulting in United's inability to lock in the group out of the champions league in advance, and eventually eliminated. Martial's Premier League expected 6.5 goals and only scored 4 league goals, compared to 7.4 expected goals and 10 goals. Not only that, martial is no longer the player who actively fought and couldn't help but laugh after completing the hat-trick a year ago, he became sullen again.
Missing out on euro 2019 in France's squad further eroded Martial's confidence, but he actually had nothing to complain about. Looking at the team, "West Ham United" Lin Huanglingard, who scored 9 goals and 5 assists in the last 16 games last season, is more eligible to be named a star player who did not qualify for the European Championship. It can be said that this summer is likely to be the most critical moment for Martial to live and die at Manchester United. Plans to bring in a new centre-forward have been shelved for another year, but after all, the £73 million champion Sancho is here this summer, and There is not much time left for Martial to regain the starting position. The 34-year-old Uruguayan striker Edmund is still Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's most trusted Manchester United centre-forward, and fans hope that Greenwood will soon become a true No. 9 player in the Premier League, with a better sense of physical confrontation and back-to-back carrying. Even in the academy system, England doubles Joe Hugh Gill and Charlie McNeil, the top scorers of last season's under-23 and under-18 teams, are more popular with fans than Martial.
Cavani, Greenwood, Sancho and Pogba, Martial would have to squeeze out at least two of those four players if he wanted to start at the start of the season. And that's because Rashford eventually decided to undergo surgery on his left shoulder, and he won't be able to return until mid-October.
Sancho, 21, can be left and right, and may replace Marcus Rashford at the beginning of the season, while 19-year-old Aoki champion Greenwood continues to develop on the right, and he has taken the lead in pre-season training.
Martial's biggest chance to play may be to compete with veteran Cavani for the center position, after all, Daisa is old. But polo kings still face great challenges, because Cavani is a fitness maniac like Cristiano Ronaldo, has no physical problems, and does not need too many rotations.
Not only that, but although Martial did not participate in the European Championship, he did not join the team's pre-season training on time, so he lost the opportunity to gain an advantage over Cavani's physical strength.
Cavani took a leave of absence after playing the Copa America and could return to training this week while he is not injured. On the promotional poster for United's new shirt at home and away, there was Cavani, but Martial was missing.
Productive pre-season is crucial to building confidence before the start of the new season, and Martial is clearly an emotional player who needs it a lot. Once Rashford is unable to prove himself by taking advantage of Rashford's suspension at the start of the season, Anthony Martial will inevitably be reduced to a substitute, which will further demoralize him and create a vicious circle.
Manchester United brought in Martial that year, a total of 44 million pounds, which was a huge amount of money at the time, but now that the times have changed, this is not a high price, and the 39 million pound new signing Van de Beek often sat on the cold bench last season. This means that cleaning Martial at a loss is no longer an impossible thing to do. Mourinho has been gone for more than two years, and this time no one will worry that after the sale of Martial, he will become Salah or De Bruyne.