The
Manchester United striker believes Ole Gunnar Solskjær and Marcus Rashford have helped him stay grounded
Mason Greenwood admits his heart began to thump. It was March of last year, Manchester United were a goal down on aggregate at
Paris Saint-Germain in the
Champions League last 16 and there were three minutes of the tie to play. Ole Gunnar Solskjær was looking at him and then he was telling him he was sending him on as a substitute. For his professional debut.
It takes a brave manager to make that kind of decision but, at the same time, it takes a special player to merit such trust. We all know how it ended in Paris, Marcus Rashford’s controversial stoppage-time penalty taking United through on away goals and leading the club to appoint Solskjær on a permanent basis. But what has possibly been forgotten is the part that it played in launching the extraordinary story of Greenwood.