{"id":330159,"date":"2021-03-22T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=330159"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:40:55","slug":"fa-cup-alan-shearer-names-manchester-united-player-to-blame-for-3-1-defeat-to-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=330159","title":{"rendered":"FA Cup: Alan Shearer names Manchester United player to blame for 3-1 defeat to Leicester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Newcastle United legend, Alan Shearer, has blamed Anthony Martial for Manchester United\u2019s FA Cup exit to Leicester City on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The former England striker said he found watching the French World Cup winner \u2018frustrating\u2019, adding that the forward lacks the \u2018hunger\u2019 to be a No. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Kelechi Iheanacho (2) and Youri Tielemans helped Leicester beat United 3-1, sent them out of the FA Cup and ended their hopes of domestic silverware this season.<\/p>\n<p>A consolation goal from Greenwood could not stop Leicester from booking their place in the semi-finals where they will now face Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>Shearer felt Martial was not offering enough in the striker role, insisting that, \u201cHe was very isolated but then sometimes you need help off your team-mates but you can also help yourself by putting yourself in better positions,\u201d he told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really frustrating performance for him because when his team-mates are looking for options from him, for him to either come short to be the link-up play, a lot of the time I\u2019m thinking, \u2018Come on, help\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul Pogba is looking for some help, he needs a run off the forward, there\u2019s no one there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s a nine. He doesn\u2019t look comfortable in the nine position. He doesn\u2019t look as if he\u2019s got that hunger to score as many goals as he could and should. It was a frustrating performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn my opinion Man United don\u2019t have a No. 9. Edinson Cavani, that\u2019s it. The rest are very good coming in from the left, off the right but Martial is not a centre-forward. Absolutely not. 100%.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Europa is now Manchester United\u2019s only hope of winning a title this season. They progressed to the quarter-finals on Thursday after beating AC Milan 2-1 on aggregate.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle United legend, Alan Shearer, has blamed Anthony Martial for Manchester United\u2019s FA Cup exit to Leicester City on Sunday. The former England striker said he found watching the French World Cup winner \u2018frustrating\u2019, adding that the forward lacks the \u2018hunger\u2019 to be a No. 9. Goals from Kelechi Iheanacho (2) and Youri Tielemans helped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,10726,1406],"class_list":["post-330159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-fa","tag-manchester-united"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}