{"id":290726,"date":"2022-11-11T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T13:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=290726"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:44:20","slug":"man-united-could-sign-new-striker-but-important-anthony-martial-can-lead-champions-league-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/man-united-could-sign-new-striker-but-important-anthony-martial-can-lead-champions-league-chase","title":{"rendered":"Man United could sign new striker but &#8216;important&#8217; Anthony Martial can lead Champions League chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag has said he wants to sign another top-class striker to ensure Manchester United do not miss out on Champions League football and has hinted that he sees Anthony Martial as his first-choice centre-forward in his current squad. Martial scored in United&#8217;s 4-2 Carabao Cup win over Aston Villa on Thursday but it was only the Frenchman&#8217;s second start in an injury-hit season. And manager Ten Hag, who has also used both Marcus Rashford and Cristiano Ronaldo as a centre forward, hinted the record scorer in footballing history is now third in line to operate as the No9. Ten Hag lamented the fact he has been unable to call upon Martial for much of the campaign, which he feels could cost United a top-four finish, saying: &#8220;The availability of the players is a concern for us. We had so many games, like [the 0-0 draw against] Newcastle United, [when] Marcus Rashford [was] ill. We had to play some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erik ten Hag has said he wants to sign another top-class striker to ensure Manchester United do not miss out on Champions League football and has hinted that he sees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-league","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}