When Anthony Martial was going through an individual session at Carrington the other week, a journalist quipped if we filmed him long enough he may succumb to another injury.
Martial, United's No.9, has missed 28 of their 42 games in a season goals have been hard to come by. Martial has not lived up this number and his number is up.
Marcus Rashford has carried an attack that has weighed him down and he collapsed at Anfield, but Erik ten Hag erred in redeploying Rashford as a No.9 when United's two significant wins over Liverpool in the last five years were through Rashford targeting Trent Alexander-Arnold.
With Bruno Fernandes on the left instead, Alexander-Arnold was largely untroubled bar his failure to shadow the Portuguese from Diogo Dalot's cross. Also read: United players report early for meeting with Ten Hag Wout Weghorst's failure to fulfil the role he was bought for (one goal in 14 games) has led to Ten Hag playing him further from goal.