Coming on as a substitute in Manchester United’s draw against Galatasaray, Anthony Martial was criticized for having “done nothing”.
The Red Devils led 3-1 before the break thanks to goals from Scott McTominay, Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes, but they let the advantage slip away to ultimately concede a draw in Istanbul. During the match, Erik Ten Hag made numerous substitutions, but his replacement did not really stand out…. With just two touches in the Galatasaray box and 16 touches in the entire match, Martial was unable to get a shot off despite playing for over thirty minutes. One of the main concerns, according to Peter Schmeichel, was the drop in work rate after the Frenchman came on in place of Rasmus Hojlund.
“When you’re up 2-0 – and it’s not the first time we’ve been up 2-0 in this tournament – you kill the game. You make sure the other team can’t get in the game. We keep the ball, we make sure we don’t make any mistakes – and we made a lot of them today. »he lamented to CBS Sports.
“And of course you also have to look at the players, like when Hojlund came out a lot of the pressing disappeared. The guy (Martial) he (Ten Hag) put in place doesn’t do anything, whereas before you had someone working really, really hard for the team up front, suddenly you don’t have this pressure anymore.
“And it gives the other team a lot of opportunities to move the ball around. So there’s a lot of things to take into account, but, again, if you score that many goals, you expect to have more than one point. »
