Anthony Martial takes Manchester United’s attacking burden from Rooney | Jonathan Wil

[Jonathan Wilson]

The 19-year-old is currently living up to his price tag and, with his team-mate out of sorts at Southampton, is rubberstamping his out-and-out striker claimIt is only two league games and only three goals but Manchester United’s purchase of Anthony Martial is looking less and less startling. Neither of his goals at Southampton were perhaps quite of the quality of the strike with which he marked his debut against Liverpool last week but both were finished with a remarkable – and, for United, reassuring – sense of certainty.
Less reassuring, perhaps, is the extent to which United needed a 19-year-old to play up to a price tag that, three weeks ago, seemed almost incomprehensible.
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