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Marcus Rashford scored the winning goal for Manchester United against Tottenham Hotspur last Sunday, meaning he has scored and assisted 10 goals in his last nine Premier League appearances.

Presuming he starts against Brighton on Saturday, as you would imagine he will given he's a favourite of the new manager, he will have made 150 appearances for United.

In that time, he can claim to have scored goals against Manchester City , Liverpool , Chelsea , Arsenal and Spurs, which shows he isn’t one to shy away from the big occasion.

This shouldn’t come as a surprise though, given that he found the back of the net twice on his debut in the Europa League, before scoring twice on his Premier League debut a few days later .

Rashford was pushed in to the spotlight ahead of time, taking many by surprise, after Louis van Gaal started him against Midtjylland when all of United’s other forwards were injured .

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He's gone on to play in close to 100 games more than David Beckham at the same age, further emphasising his prodigious talent

Some people scoffed at this suggestion, noting that Kane has scored at least 20 goals a season for the past five years on the trot, claiming that Rashford would never be capable of a similar feat. But why not.

It wasn’t that long ago that fans were claiming Kane would be a one season wonder after he bagged 31 goals in 51 appearances back in 2015. If you go back further, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone who believed that Kane would be capable of scoring as many goals as he now does year after year.

After all, when Kane was Rashford’s age he had just three top-flight league goals to his name. The United man has obviously played in more games, but that tells a story in itself. He is good enough to play regular football for United, who finished second last season, and has won three trophies, playing in all three finals, while Kane was being loaned out to League One and Championship clubs.

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For the sake of further comparison, the all-time Premier League top scorer, Alan Shearer, had 10 top-flight goals when he was Rashford’s age while Andy Cole, third on the list of the top Premier League scorers, had zero.

When looking at their comparative England careers, Rashford already has six goals for his country, including two against Spain, while those three hadn’t even made their international debut yet

When these strikers were 21, people may have talked about their potential but it would have been impossible to predict what they would go on to be capable of. Rashford is totally outperforming anything they did though, so who’s to say where the ceiling for the United forward will be

He’s still years away from his peak but has shown, particularly this season, that he is capable of scoring regularly. He’s already matched his highest tally for a season in the league and there are 16 games left to play.

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It can only help that he now has Solskjaer, one of United’s coolest ever finishers, coaching him. His shot to beat Hugo Lloris on Sunday was from a tight angle, with a defender closing down on him, yet he still managed to find the bottom corner, with the ball out of reach for the World Cup winning goalkeeper

As a player, so often Solskjaer was given just a few minutes to grab a goal and he regularly delivered. He got in to the right place at the right time, was calm in front of goal, and was able to find the back of the net.

For the next few months at least, Rashford can soak up all the advice Solskjaer has to offer and hopefully further improve on his composure and finishing.

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It’s far too early to claim that Rashford will go on to be a 20+ goals a season striker. But then it’s also far too early to claim that he won’t.

For now, United supporters get to enjoy watching this lifelong fan pulling on their shirt week after week, giving his all for the club, and popping up with a few goals along the way.

Will he one day emulate Kane? They can hope so. And he’s done more than enough already to warrant their patience.