‘We’ve not seen that’ – John McGinn debunks Ruben Amorim’s Marcus Rashford claims after Champions League masterclass

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ASTON VILLA skipper John McGinn has defended his caller team-mate Marcus Rashford from Ruben Amorim’s criticism.

Rashford joined Villa connected indebtedness successful January aft struggling for minutes nether caller Manchester United manager Amorim, making conscionable six appearances pursuing his accomplishment successful November.

 (L-R) Marcus Rashford of Aston Villa, Kyriani Sabbe of Club Brugge during the UEFA Champions League lucifer  betwixt  Club Brugge v Aston Villa astatine  the Jan Breydel Stadium connected  March 4, 2025 successful  Brugge Belgium (Photo by Rico Brouwer/Soccrates/Getty Images)Rashford impressed again successful the Champions League for VillaGetty
 Marco Asensio of Aston Villa and Marcus Rashford of Aston Villa observe  the 1st extremity   during the Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round lucifer  betwixt  Aston Villa and Cardiff City astatine  Villa Park connected  February 28, 2025 successful  Birmingham, England. (Photo by Neal Simpson/Sportsphoto/Allstar via Getty Images)Rashford and Asensio person made an content since joining connected indebtedness successful JanuaryGetty

His superior ailment was a deficiency of strength successful Rashford’s grooming and reluctance to bargain into his ideas.

The Portuguese said: “I couldn’t enactment Marcus to spot the mode you’re expected to play shot and to bid the mode I spot it.”

Since moving to the Midlands, though, Rashford, 27, has been backmost to his best, impressing successful his archetypal appearances for Villa and astir precocious starring successful Tuesday’s 3-1 Champions League triumph implicit Club Brugge.

McGinn has present revealed however good Rashford and his chap Villa loanees Marco Asensio and Axel Disasi have settled successful down the scenes.

He said: “They’ve been a enactment of caller air.

“Three truly bully guys, evidently travel with large reputations but they haven’t shown immoderate ego.

“They’re beauteous debased maintenance, they enactment hard to get their careers backmost connected track.”

Like Rashford, Asensio and Disasi are looking for redemption astatine Villa aft struggling astatine their respective clubs.

Spanish planetary Asensio, 29, ne'er rather kicked connected aft joining PSG from Real Madrid, but scored a brace for Villa successful a 2-1 triumph implicit Chelsea soon aft moving.

Disasi, 26, struggled to triumph implicit Enzo Maresca astatine Chelsea, falling down escaped transportation Tosin Adarabioyo successful the pecking order.

McGinn continued: “They evidently weren’t playing astatine their clubs, truthful what we tin springiness them is simply a level to bash that and beryllium happy.

“All we privation successful instrumentality is for them to beryllium a bully team-mate, enactment hard, bash the things we’ve each been doing implicit the past mates of seasons and amusement their quality.

“They’ve been brilliant.”

Villa’s distant triumph implicit Club Brugge gives them the precocious manus going into the 2nd limb astatine Villa Park, which volition instrumentality spot adjacent Wednesday.

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