Louis van Gaal lashed out at Manuel Pellegrini against Rashford, saying: "In football, scoring five goals in a game is called a slap trick, and after scoring five goals, it's just a normal way to celebrate. ”

Van Gaal said that not to mention that a person who slaps a trick in a game will extend his slap in celebration, even if a team scores five goals in a game, they will extend their slap to celebrate.

To that end, he singled out Barcelona's Gerard Pique for a slap in celebration in the Spanish derby a few years ago, and even earlier, 22 years ago, in 1993-94, when Cruyff's Barcelona won 5-0 against Real Madrid, Dutchman's assistant coach Slote made the move for the first time at Camp Nou.

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Of course, Marcus Rashford, who is the party involved, was also asked this question.

Marcus Rashford is not so excited at the moment, and he said that the reason why he slapped him in celebration after scoring five goals was mainly because he was targeted by Manchester City players and fans throughout the game.

City players repeatedly fouled him on the pitch, and to make matters worse, Demichelis kicked him in the box at the end of the first half, and after escaping punishment from the referee, he verbally provoked him; And in the second half of the game, when he had cramps, he was also treated unfairly. As for the Manchester City fans, the whole stadium was booing him, scolding him, and even making insulting gestures to him.

All of this made him so angry that he scored the fifth goal at the end of the game and then slapped him in celebration.

Therefore, for Pellegrini's accusations, he said that it is not his responsibility. He had scored a lot of goals ahead of today's game but never celebrated too much, not even against Liverpool, who had a deeper grudge against Manchester United.

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The post-match press conference ended in controversy, but the impact of this match was far from over, because there was so much focus on this match.

Whether it was Marcus Rashford's five sons in the game, or the way he celebrated in the final moments of the game, or the poor performance of referee Oliver's game, and Pellegrini's post-match speech, all media people were happy to see.

However, there is plenty of time for these to ferment and brew. Because the next two weeks are the international break, the first of 2016.

Therefore, after playing the local derby, the internationals of various countries in the Manchester United team left the club one after another, and flew to the world on planes to participate in the matches of their respective national teams.

As one of the world's biggest clubs, Manchester United has a huge number of internationals in the squad, so for a while, the Carrington training base was deserted, with only some players from the youth team and players who were not called up by the national team during the international break remain on the base.

Although Rashford has performed impressively in the previous month, and there have been many calls from Hodgson to recruit Rashford into the national team, he has not been called up by the England national team.

In this regard, many British media expressed dissatisfaction, after all, Manchester United's influence in the UK is too great, and Rashford's performance this month is too amazing.

However, Rashford himself has little idea about this, and now he wishes the national team would let him go, he has played eight high-intensity games in less than a month, he is tired enough, just take the opportunity of the international break, the club to take a break, take a good rest.

Playing for England, especially in a warm-up game, Rashford doesn't have much motivation.

However, if he can qualify for the European Championships in the summer, he is very willing.

As for whether he can qualify for the European Cup in France that starts in June and July, Rashford has nothing to worry about, because his performance in his previous life is not as good as now, and he has been successfully qualified.

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The England men's national football team, which did not call up Rashford, have two warm-up games this international break, and neither opponent is underdog.

They first challenged the German national team on the night of March 26 in Berlin, Germany. After 90 minutes of fierce battle, England narrowly beat Germany 3-2 away, Kroos and Gomes scored successively, Harry Kane and Vardy, who have been eye-catching in the Premier League this season, scored two goals in a row to equalise, and Dier scored in the 91st minute.

Despite the away win over a strong opponent, England's performance still attracted a lot of criticism from the media, because the team was really poor in scoring ability.

In fact, it can't be said that England's scoring ability is not good, they had 17 shots on goal, 6 shots on target, and scored 3 goals, which is already a good performance.

However, some media outlets have pointed out that if Rashford had come on in this game, England would not have won so hard with the scoring ability and ability to grasp opportunities he has shown in previous games.

The media also cited Rashford's stats from the previous eight games, with 53 shots on goal, 43 on target and 28 goals, which is a bit frightening.

Especially against Manchester City, he had 5 shots on goal, 5 on target, and 5 goals, which can be called crazy.

If there was only a small amount of criticism after the win over Germany, then when they were beaten by the Netherlands at Wembley Stadium three days later, losing the game by a score of 1-2 and extending their winless run against the Netherlands to 20 years, the criticism of Hodgson in England was intense.

In this game, Jamie Vardy gave the Three Lions the lead, Janssen equalised from the penalty spot and Narsinger netted the winner.

It is no exaggeration to say that the Netherlands, like Germany and Sweden before it, is England's demons.

That match 20 years ago was at Euro 1996, when England swept the Netherlands 4-1 to reach the semi-finals of the tournament, their best result at a major tournament since the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

But since then, England has never tasted victory against the Netherlands.

In this game, from the perspective of the field alone, England still has a certain advantage, 66% of the possession rate is almost twice that of the opponent, and the total number of shots is also 15:8 ahead, but it is embarrassing in terms of shots on target, but it is far behind 3:6.

Among them, two strikers, Sturridge and Theo Walcott, have been greatly criticised for squandering too many chances.

After this game, the call for Rashford to enter the national team in England has risen unprecedentedly.