Rashford unfazed by teenage kicks at Manchester United

Marcus Rashford has so far played with all the guile of a ten-year veteran in the Premier League but the teenager admits he’s been on the receiving end of some rough justice.

Rashford, who has played out wide for Manchester United to accommodate Zlatan Ibrahimovic this season, regularly uses his speed and agility to skip past full-backs on the byline.

But if defenders can’t beat him, they can certainly kick him and the 18-year-old has had to contend with his fair share of knocks since bursting into the first-team picture at Old Trafford back in February.

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Not that Rashford is complaining about the attention he is getting.

“You don’t go through a game of football without having a knock,” he said. “I don’t think I have done that for years! It does toughen you up.

“When you get the first knock it kind of wakes you up, you know they are men and it is not like Under-18s when you can take loads of knocks and know you will be fine, that you won’t feel anything after the game.

“You definitely get harder knocks but it helps. You just get up and get on with the game, and then you can give it to them back. It is important and when you are young I think you need those types of game.”