There is a major Marcus Rashford worry ahead of West Ham clash with Man United and cynical fans know what happens next.
West Ham face Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Sunday afternoon live Sky Sports game.
A trip to face the fast-improving Red Devils in the Premier League will be a massive step up from the opposition the Hammers have faced this week, which saw wins over Bournemouth on Monday and then Silkeborg three days later.
West Ham sit within striking distance of Man United and the European spots.
Ahead of the clash David Moyes has said the fact West Ham finished just one point off his former club last season shows the Hammers have closed the gap on the likes of Man United.
Erik ten Hag has warned his Man United players about ‘much better’ West Ham ahead of the clash.
There has been a big focus on Moyes’s abysmal record away at the so-called top six. The Scot has failed to win a single Premier League game on the road to one of those clubs in 69 attempts.
But Hammers supporters will be extremely concerned about an ominous fact that has emerged ahead of the clash which has a huge sense of inevitability about it.
There is a major Marcus Rashford worry ahead of the West Ham clash with Man United and cynical fans know what happens next.
Any West Ham fan of a certain age will know all about the club’s striker curse.
If your forward has not scored for lengthy period, is looking to score for the first time, is awaiting a milestone goal or is a former Hammer facing their old club then the outcome is inevitable when West Ham come to town.
All too often West Ham are the club that lends the helping hand, the gift horse for so many strikers down the years.
The recent game against Liverpool was a perfect example. Much had been made ahead of the game against the Reds about the fact Darwin Nunez was yet to break his Anfield duck. Enter West Ham.
Now West Ham fans will be fearing the inevitable after it emerged Man United forward Rashford is gunning for his 100th Red Devils goal in the clash.
Ten Hag says he hopes 99-goal Rashford can get his 100th Man United goal against West Ham – the club he was rather unrealistically linked with during the summer.
If Rashford does net against West Ham, a match in which he scored a stoppage-time winner last season, he would achieve a century of goals for the club just hours before his 25th birthday, which falls on Monday.
For cynical West Ham fans it is more a case of when rather than if.
Let’s just hope it is only a consolation and Gianluca Scamacca steals the headlines for the Hammers instead.
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