Marcus Rashford got his name in the Manchester United record books after a brilliant hat-trick from the bench against RB Lepizig.
Marcus Rashford has received lots of praise for his recent activity off the pitch but that praise is quickly spreading on it as well.
A week from grabbing the winner against PSG in Paris, the forward came off the bench to score a hat-trick and round up a 5-0 thrashing of Leipzig.
Rashford came off the bench in the 63rd and was up to scoring goals in no time.
His hat-trick saw him become only the second Manchester United player to achieve that feat from the bench via Opta. In poetic fashion, the only other player to do so is current Manchester United boss Ole Solskjaer.
The United man further wrote his name in history books as the fastest player to achieve a hat-trick in the Champions League and the fifth individual to do so as per Goal. All of his goals came inside a 15-minute spell.
“I think the manager wanted me to up the tempo,” Rashford told BT Sport after the match.
“That for us means going forward. There was definitely spaces there. We got Bruno [Fernandes] and Paul [Pogba] on the ball. We looked dangerous throughout and like we could score every time we went forward.”
Despite the great individual performance, Rashford attributed their sensational win to how United played as a compact unit.
“It was a real team performance. The ones who started did well and the substitutes did well too. We can’t ask for much more than that in terms of the attitude and the intent to go and kill the game off. It worked in our favor,” he added.
Rashford now has four goals from two Champions League games and is already at seven goals in total this season.
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