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Barcelona’s Marcus Rashford scores their third goal in the LaLiga win over Elche at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, Barcelona<\/p>\n
Marcus Rashford’s strike helped Barcelona to a 3-1 LaLiga victory over Elche on Sunday but manager Hansi Flick said the forward can still make more of the opportunities he is presented with in the final third.<\/p>\n
Rashford netted from a tight angle to cap the scoring in a win that lifted the defending champions to second place with 25 points, five adrift of Real Madrid.<\/p>\n
The England international has scored six goals in all competitions since moving to Barcelona on loan from Manchester United in July.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you see the chances he has, I think one or two goals more will be good, also for him,\u201d Flick told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that he can play on this level and I am happy he shows it, for the fans and for the club, and also for the teammates he is a very important player.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rashford acknowledged that his decision making has room to improve.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just try to do the right things on the pitch. Even today, I could have had more assists or goals, sometimes the decision to shoot or pass was wrong,\u201d the 28-year-old told Spanish media.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I am going to have days like this. The important thing is always the team and today we won.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy focus is not so much on the output. If I am doing the right things, I know I will always be able to score and assist; my focus is with the team, to build relationships and feel comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barcelona next travel to Club Brugge in the Champions League on Wednesday before a LaLiga visit to Celta Vigo on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barcelona’s Marcus Rashford scores their third goal in the LaLiga win over Elche at Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[49101,18,19,17,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-160287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-barcelona-football-club","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115485388933745014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}