It’s going to beryllium a spot unusual to spot Marcus Rashford turning retired successful an Aston Villa shirt. Or immoderate garment astatine all, really.
The England guardant and fleeting nationalist treasure hasn’t played successful astir 2 months, and hasn’t scored since his treble connected December 1.
Whether oregon not that was the past clip helium ‘put it each in’, is simply a question for Ruben Amorim.
Rashford is expected to enactment up successful beforehand of a sell-out assemblage astatine Villa Park for the FA Cup sojourn of Tottenham (5.30pm, BBC One).
What punters request to inquire is however all-in tin a thumb-twiddling Rashford person perchance go successful clip for today’s game?
The 7/4 ‘anytime scorer’ offers america nary wriggle country connected that question, fixed his threadbare stats truthful acold this season.
But Tottenham’s threadbare resources look to beryllium an over-riding origin – and with nary Ollie Watkins for Villa, a tight, scrappy 1 is favoured.
I similar Morgan Rogers ‘shown a card’ astatine 6/1 (Skybet). That’s immense connected his stats this term.
Amadou Onana ‘scores a header’ is simply a ripe worldie astatine 22/1 (Paddy) assuming helium gets the nod.
Have Blackburn Rovers got bigger food to fry than the FA Cup, up of the sojourn of Wolves this lunchtime (12.30pm, BBC iPlayer)? The reply is precise astir apt not.
Rovers’ promotion propulsion successful the Championship has flat-lined – 8 points from a imaginable 30 since Christmas. They look downwardly mobile.
But they volition fancy investigating Wolves’ set-piece defending, the Prem’s worst. Big Danny Batth is simply a unrecorded longshot astatine 20/1 (Skybet) ‘anytime scorer’.
Wolves’ Matheus Cunha isn’t a shy shooter – ‘OVER 3.5 shots’ is close astatine 6/5 (Paddy) if helium starts.
Liverpool’s travel to Plymouth Argyle (3pm, ITV) could beryllium the day’s slipperiest banana skin, but the Pilgrims vessel excessively galore goals to marque superior appeal.
The Reds line-up is guesswork astatine this point, but with the hosts abbreviated of aerial defence, 2 ‘scores a header’ pokes look fruity capable if starting - Diogo Jota astatine 9/1 (Betway) and Jarell Quansah astatine 16/1 (Betway).
Over successful Italy, in-form Romelu Lukaku is simply a coagulated coin-flip astatine 10/11 (Unibet) ‘score oregon assist’ for Napoli erstwhile Udinese sojourn (7.45pm, Serie A).
Last week: Winners astatine 7/4, 9/4 and 6/1