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» Rooney impressed with ‘incredible’ Rashford as England prepare for Portugal
‘I think what’s pleasing about him is his attitude. It’s first class’
• Hodgson explains decision to leave out Drinkwater and Townsend
Wayne Rooney and Roy Hodgson face the media.
Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
Wayne Rooney has been impressed with the attitude shown by Manchester United team-mate Marcus Rashford both at club and international level.
Teenager Rashford, who broke into the United side this season and scored eight goals, was included in England boss Roy Hodgson’s 23-man squad for the European Championship in France later this month.
Rashford scored three minutes into his England debut against
Australia last Friday and Rooney and Hodgson are now looking forward to
seeing more from him in an England shirt.
Speaking before Thursday’s last warm-up game against Portugal, Rooney
said: “I think the way he took to coming into the Manchester United
team and the way he’s performed from when he’s come in until the end of
the season has been incredible really.
“He’s certainly showed what he can do in his first game for England, getting his first goal in the first couple of minutes.
“I think what’s pleasing about him is his attitude. It’s first class
and that’s shown around the hotel and on the training pitch and he
deserves it.
“He could be a real positive for us.”
Hodgson added: “Rashford’s had that fantastic end to the season and he’s a very, very interesting player.
“He has special qualities and I think that’s been recognised by
everybody - and it will be very interesting to see in a squad of 23
whether or not he can bring those qualities to bear at an even higher
level.”
On his decision to leave Leicester’s Danny Drinkwater and Newcastle’s
Andros Townsend out of his squad, Hodgson added: “It was a very
difficult decision [to trim the squad to 23].
“For a long period of time, if anything, we haven’t had an enormous
amount of choice and sometimes there have been comments that we don’t
have enough players to pick from.
“Suddenly we do have a lot of players to pick from and it was a very tough decision for me.
“I was very happy with the 26, I was delighted with the way the three
guys who didn’t get selected for the final 23 worked and yesterday was a
difficult day for me having to tell them they weren’t going to be in
the final 23.
“But I must say the players were fantastic, they were unbelievably
understanding of the need that I had to make a decision. They ended by
wishing everybody well and that they had enjoyed the preparation time.
They made the job as easy for me as it could possibly be.”
CREDIT TO:https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/01/rooney-impressed-with-incredible-rashford-as-england-prepare-for-portugal
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