{"id":17833,"date":"2019-12-27T00:41:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=17833"},"modified":"2019-12-27T00:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T00:51:56","slug":"is-mason-greenwood-next-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/12\/27\/is-mason-greenwood-next-cristiano-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Mason Greenwood next Cristiano Ronaldo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mason Greenwood was compared to the Manchester United legend Cristiano Ronaldo as he was hailed as an ‘exceptional finisher’.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old forward smashed home his eighth goal of the season with a stunning 36th minute strike from the edge of the area in the 4-1 win for Manchester United over Newcastle.<\/p>\n

Only one teenager, Borussia Dortmund’s Jadon Sancho with 12, has scored more goals in Europe’s big five leagues.<\/p>\n

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Forward Mason Greenwood smashed home his eighth goal of the season against Newcastle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After the game United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer hailed the youngster.<\/p>\n

He told the Sun: ‘There is not too many I can remember like him who has every single technique. He’s not just 50-50 with both feet but probably 60-60!<\/p>\n

‘Cristiano can score just as many with his left and they are proper strikes. But Mason can curl the ball with both feet, he is an exceptional finisher.<\/p>\n

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The teenage forward smashed home a stunning strike from the edge of the area on Boxing Day<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘He has got the lot. He’s young and has got a lot to learn, he knows that. He needs to head the ball like Marcus Rashford can.<\/p>\n

‘I don’t think we are going to see the best of Mason for a couple of years. But I can remember when I was 18 but I was nowhere near the level playing at he was.<\/p>\n

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Mason Greenwood was compared to the Manchester United legend Cristiano Ronaldo as he was hailed as an ‘exceptional finisher’. The 18-year-old forward smashed home his eighth goal of the season with a stunning 36th minute strike from the edge of the area in the 4-1 win for Manchester United over Newcastle. Only one teenager, Borussia […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[3752,5810,9119,1791,7923,6621,3360,1560,10104,11252,115,507,8258,1717,190,11973,114,194,5965,5818,5374,7419,594,5140],"class_list":["post-17833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-day","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-dortmund","tag-europe","tag-greenwood","tag-jadon-sancho","tag-legend","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-marcus-rashford","tag-mason-greenwood","tag-newcastle","tag-ole-gunnar-solskjaer","tag-one","tag-rashford","tag-ronaldo","tag-sancho","tag-strike","tag-sun","tag-the-game","tag-who","tag-young"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}