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Tyrone Marshall

Manchester United have a new look attack to unleash on Leeds at Elland Road

There was a time when Marcus Rashford was considered ineffective at centre-forward, but as good as he's been on the left for Manchester United this season, he's arguably been even better through the middle.

He's started off the left against Crystal Palace and Leeds this week, but has lit up the game once he's been moved centrally. It took him two minutes to score as a striker on Saturday and three minutes to repeat the trick on Wednesday.

The most eye-catching thing about those two goals is just how good they've been from the perspective of a centre-forward. Against Palace it was the cleverness of his movement, the ability to hold a run when the central defenders dropped beyond him, leaving him with an easy chance.

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