{"id":26923,"date":"2020-07-04T13:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T13:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26923"},"modified":"2020-07-04T13:21:15","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T13:21:15","slug":"what-makes-me-different-from-rashford-martial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-makes-me-different-from-rashford-martial","title":{"rendered":"WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT FROM RASHFORD &amp; MARTIAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Former Nigeria international Odion Ighalo has explained what makes him different from Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old striker, who is loan at Manchester United from Chinese club Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, is known to be a traditional center forward.<\/p>\n<p>Ighalo feels that his playing style is different from that of his United teammates Martial and Rashford, who are mobile strikers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnthony Martial is very skillful. He\u2019s a direct striker. He likes to play with the ball at his feet,\u201d Ighalo said on All Nigeria Soccer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRashy [Marcus Rashford] likes to run in behind. I think I bring different things to the strikers we have.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can play with my back to goal, I can keep the ball. I\u2019m strong so it\u2019s different, you know, and for the different games, we play different patterns and with different strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ighalo, who is yet to start an English Premier League match for United, has impressed in cup competitions having netted five goals in five starts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s good to have different types of a striker in order to accomplish what you want,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019ve gained more experience now and I push my game a little bit more than when I was at Watford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I\u2019m even stronger now than I was then and have a bit more fighting ability to give, plus I have the experience to do what it takes on the field to score goals and to help the team. I feel I have improved from then to now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ighalo will be looking to inspire United to a win when they face AFC Bournemouth in a Premier League match on Saturday, July 04.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Former Nigeria international Odion Ighalo has explained what makes him different from Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford. The 31-year-old striker, who is loan at Manchester United from Chinese club Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, is known to be a traditional center forward. Ighalo feels that his playing style is different from that of his United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":24985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[1381,115],"class_list":["post-26923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-ighalo","tag-nigerian-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT FROM RASHFORD &amp; MARTIAL - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Former Nigeria international Odion Ighalo has explained what makes him different from Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/what-makes-me-different-from-rashford-martial\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT FROM RASHFORD &amp; 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