Marcus Rashford has been criticised for choosing to miss Aston Villa’s FA Cup semi-final clash with Crystal Palace despite the 27-year-old attending a boxing event in London just hours later.

He’s proven everyone wrong." “We have to give him credit. There was a big narrative out there that Marcus Rashford is not the same player, and Ruben Amorim was correct about everything.

It was revealing that in Aston Villa’s two biggest games of the season, Marcus Rashford started in attack. This meant Ollie Watkins started on the bench against Paris Saint-Germain in the ...