Barcelona summer signing Marcus Rashford last night made use of the opportunity to showcase exactly what he is capable of when lining out in a centre-forward role.
This came by way of one particular sequence during Barcelona’s meeting with Como.
Hansi Flick’s troops of course closed out their pre-seaso schedule on Sunday, in the annual Joan Gamper Trophy match.
When all was said and done, the Blaugrana emerged dominant victors, by five goals to nil.
Owing to the respective injury-enforced absences of Robert Lewandowski and Ferran Torres, the aforementioned Marcus Rashford was afforded the chance to showcase his talents in a central role.
And as alluded to above, at one point, the Englishman showed exactly why he could add a new element to Barca’s game from this position.
En route to laying on an assist for Raphinha to slot home, Rashford completely opened Como up courtesy of a combination of fine hold-up play, decision-making, pace, and final ball.
The kind of traits so often singled out as lacking in Robert Lewandowski’s game, Hansi Flick will no doubt have taken full note of the following exchange:
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