{"id":13220,"date":"2025-04-16T02:59:33","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/marcus-rashford-aston-villa-boss-unai-emery-praises-fantastic-forward\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T02:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T02:59:33","slug":"marcus-rashford-aston-villa-boss-unai-emery-praises-fantastic-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/marcus-rashford-aston-villa-boss-unai-emery-praises-fantastic-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Rashford: Aston Villa boss Unai Emery praises ‘fantastic’ forward"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Rashford’s January move appears to have revived the England international’s career but, after a number of decent displays, this was arguably his best for Emery’s side.<\/p>\n

The way he set up Villa’s third goal against PSG was a brilliant display of skill as he nutmegged one player to get into the box, sidestepped another before cutting the ball back perfectly for Ezri Konsa to fire home.<\/p>\n

That assist was his fifth for the club – no Premier League player has managed more since his Villa debut.<\/p>\n

Rashford memorably scored a last-minute penalty for Manchester United against PSG in 2019 to send them out of the Champions League, and he almost came back to haunt them once again as only a stunning Gianluigi Donnarumma stop denied him finding the top corner.<\/p>\n

“Marcus Rashford didn’t score, but the energy levels that he had… he was making those defenders make mistakes,” former Villa and Manchester United striker Dion Dublin said on BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n

“For me, he was man of the match for Villa.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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