Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has already explained how lucky he is to have a "specific scoring trainer" in first-team coach Benni McCarthy working with the club's forward players, including Marcus Rashford.
The arrival of the former Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United striker in late July has coincided with Rashford enjoying the best goalscoring season of the player's eight years as a professional. After scoring twice against Leicester City last weekend, the 25-year-old scored his 23rd and 24 goals of the campaign across all competitions, which eclipses the previous high from the 2019/20 season while Ole Gunnar Solskjær was still in charge.
Coincidentally, 24 is the same tally that McCarthy scored during his debut season in England after swapping Portugal for Lancashire, also his most successful season in front of goal in the country. Rashford now needs just one more goal to top his coach's career-best goalscoring season, which came while playing for Porto across the 2003/04 season when he hit 25, two of which came against United as Jose Mourinho's side sent them out of the Champions League at the first knockout round stage en route to lifting the trophy.
