This season has been a season of discovery at Old Trafford. Several youngsters have shown that they can hold their own on the biggest stage and against the biggest opponent.
Two players that have highly distinguished themselves among the newcomers in the first team are Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford.
Both are young, strong, thickish, skilful and most importantly have an eye for goal.
Martial was a surprise signing that has taken the United fans by surprise.
Since his goal scoring debut against Liverpool to his last game against Everton, the Frenchman has oozed life and confidence into the United's attack. 14 goals and seven assist in your debut season in a club like United at 20 is not a fluke.
But the question mark on Martial is: where is his most effective position? As a winger or a striker?
He's been deployed as a winger more frequently by Van Gaal, hence he has scored more goals from the flanks than playing as a central striker.
The answer to that question will be well explained by time.
The player himself has however come out to say he is more of a striker than a winger.
Rashford is another star that was delivered at United this season.
Since making his goal scoring debut in the Europa League in February, the youngster followed that up with breathtaking performances against Arsenal and City.
He has ever since delivered above average performances despite playing a lot of games in a short while.
The rise of this duo must have promoted Wayne Rooney to concede that his future with United lies in the midfield.
They are both young, pacey, strong and developing good goal scorers. And will give the United skipper a decent competition for playing time, if he(Rooney) still decides to continue as a striker.
United traditionally over the years have been built on a two striker system.
Remember they days of Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez, Wayne Rooney and Ruud van Nistelrooy, Van Persie and Wayne Rooney, Andy Cole and Dwight York, and a Long list of successful striking partners that have epitomized United attacking football over the last two decades.
The presence of these two young forward raises the possibility of partnering them upfront, and see if that would work.
It most likely will.
With the right tutelage, both will mature to become 20 or 25 goals a season striker for United.
If they can be backed with strong attacking presence and services from the wings, their combination looks promising.
Assuming Memphis Depay was performing as projected and expected, the trio can lead United's attack the way young C.Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney, Carlos Tevez the experienced Ryan Giggs from the attacking quadruplet that conquered Europe and the world in 2008.
Testing these two upfront would be a good experiment for Van Gaal or United's next manager.
What do you think?
Do you see this partnership working?
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