Tilbage i Manchester Uniteds pre-season kritiserede Alan Shearer den engelske kantspiller og angriber Marcus Rashford. Den hollandske træner forsvarede Rashford i en pressekonference, hvor han sagde følgende: 

“Everyone gets criticism from you guys, it doesn’t matter what we are doing, if we are winning or if we are losing - In this case, it was stupid analysis from the pundit”

Efter nederlaget svarede Shearer tilbage på The Rest Is Football Podcast med følgende:

“Nothing much has changed over the summer, has it? Certainly, in the performances that we’ve seen - They got absolutely battered, was like men against boys. They were awful, Liverpool were brilliant.”

En af årsagerne til den dårlige formkurve for Rashford kan forklares ved at han går igennem en svær periode med personlige problemer.