Aston Villa star Ollie Watkins<\/a>, who was linked with United in recent months, made way at half-time and Barcelona summer signing Rashford took to the pitch.<\/p>\n England were already leading Wales 3-0 in the first half of Thursday\u2019s friendly clash at Wembley before Rashford was introduced to the attack under Thomas Tuchel.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Opta\u2019s supercomputer shows what Man Utd\u2019s expected Premier League position is vs current standing<\/a><\/p>\n Marcus Rashford played the entire second half of the friendly match and the 27-year-old former Aston Villa forward did not secure an assist or score against Wales.<\/p>\n The Manchester United loanee has been able to revive his career away from Old Trafford<\/a> after falling out of favour under Red Devils head coach Ruben Amorim<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rashford completed a move to Barcelona<\/a> in the summer and the England international has secured regular playing time under manager Hansi Flick.<\/p>\n Thomas Tuchel made the call to start Anthony Gordon in England\u2019s 3-0 win over Wales by playing the Newcastle winger out on the left-hand side of his set-up.<\/p>\n Speaking after the match on Thursday, Ian Wright<\/a> suggested that the left winger role under Tuchel remains \u2018up for grabs\u2019 between Anthony Gordon and Rashford.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I think so [the left winger position remaining open],\u201d he said in the ITV Sport studio.<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially, you know, you see Gordan, he kind of you know, stops-starts, you don\u2019t really see it yet.<\/p>\n \u201cYou know, Marcus is always there to come on as well, but there isn\u2019t anyone that\u2019s put a real stamp and marker down and say, \u2018Yeah, I\u2019m going to make sure I make that left side mine.\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cSo, yeah, there\u2019s still a left side up for grabs for someone.\u201d<\/p>\n READ MORE: David de Gea proves Erik ten Hag wrong once again after what he has now done at Fiorentina, nobody rivals Man Utd legend<\/a><\/p>\n Man Utd and Barcelona forward Marcus Rashford has it all to prove that he can be one of Thomas Tuchel\u2019s main picks for England<\/p>\n Rashford\u2019s time at Aston Villa<\/a> in the second half of the 2024-25 Premier League season saw the Barcelona summer signing return to the England squad under Thomas Tuchel.<\/p>\n The ex-Villa player lost his place with the Three Lions under Sir Gareth Southgate<\/a> and Rashford\u2019s poor run of form at United<\/a> resulted in him missing Euro 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sir Gareth Southgate stepped down as England manager after the Three Lions\u2019 defeat to Spain in the Euro 2024 final and Tuchel succeeded him in the role.<\/p>\n England have had a strong World Cup qualifying campaign so far and the Three Lions are on the verge of securing qualification for next summer\u2019s tournament.<\/p>\n The Three Lions will reach the 2026 World Cup if they defeat Latvia on Tuesday and Serbia lose to either Albania or Andorra during the October international break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ITV pundit Ian Wright has spoken out about on-loan Manchester United star Marcus Rashford and one other England…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,17252,11287,1428,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-ian-wright","tag-loan-players","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Manchester](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2239563167-1024x683.jpg\")
Photo by Catherine Ivill \u2013 AMA\/Getty ImagesIan Wright shares a clear-cut point about Man Utd and Barcelona player Marcus Rashford after England\u2019s display against Wales<\/p>\n