Manchester United barely score goals. From the striker position, with Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee, the Red Devils have scored a total of five Premier League goals in 24 games. At the academy, the club has the striker who can do nothing but score. Ruben Amorim was asked the inevitable question of when 17-year-old Chido Obi-Martin will be brought up to the first team.
During his first week on the job as Manchester United manager in November, Ruben Amorim was told that he has a unique striker talent on the rise. Danish Chido Obi-Martin dropped Arsenal and signed for Manchester United last summer. The 17-year-old has 9 goals in seven appearances for United’s U18 team. Now bigger challenges awaited the Premier League U18 history’s all-time leading scorer, a challenge the striker with 10 goals in the same game against Liverpool at U16 took on with great pleasure.
Last week, the 17-year-old got to play for Manchester United’s U21 team against Oldham in the national League Cup, the Dane responded with the utmost certainty with a goal.
Ruben Amorim is known for instilling confidence in teenagers in the Sporting era, when Manchester City visited Lisbon for the Champions League, it was a 17-year-old who stopped the City attack at full-back.
On Friday, Amrorim was asked about Obi-Martin.
“He (Obi-Martin) is doing his job. He’s improving and he’s playing for the youth teams and we’ve got other players who can play that position as well,” the United manager began, according to the Manchester Evening News.
“Rasmus and Josh (Zirkzee) are there. We have bought the two players and we have to improve them, and sometimes confidence can change a player. We’ll see at the end of the season. But until then we have two strikers who can score goals, they have proven that before.
That is, confidence in Hojlund and Zirkzee for the rest of the season, then the decision is made on who will lead Manchester United from the top.
We think Amorim will bring in Obi-Martin already this season, if the striker duo continues in the same negative track. The Dane has the necessary physical starting point, and in addition, the 17-year-old is something Højlund and Zirkzee are not: Bursting with confidence.
