Chido Obi and Rasmus Hojlund comparison stat emerges after Man Utd defeat to Fulham and it looks like a typo

In the aftermath of Sunday night's FA Cup clash between Manchester United and Fulham, a quite remarkable stat emerged involving Chido Obi-Martin and Rasmus Hojlund.

Chido Obi, who joined United in September following the expiration of his schoolboy deal at Arsenal, is widely regarded as one of the club's brightest prospects.

After being invited to train with the club's first team on several occasions under Ruben Amorim, the teenager made his debut for United in the closing stages of their 1-0 defeat to Spurs on February 16.

A week later, he was then handed further minutes in their 2-2 draw with Everton and on Sunday evening, Chido Obi impressed after replacing the out-of-form Rasmus Hojlund in the 68th minute against Fulham.

“He’s been a real handful in there you know," said Alan Shearer, who was on commentary duty for the BBC. "He’s certainly offered a lot more than Hojlund has when he was on the pitch. He’s been a nuisance and tough to play against."

Shearer added: “I like what I see from Obi, I really do. He’s certainly given them a different option to play with.”

After the full-time whistle, it emerged that Chido Obi had three big chances in 52 minutes against Fulham, while Hojlund has had three big chances in 22 Premier League matches this season.

Hojlund has struggled in front of goal for large parts of the 2023/24 campaign. In fact, his last goal came in a 2-1 win over Viktoria Plzen in the Europa League on December 12 last year.

Chido, meanwhile, impressed many with his brief cameo against Fulham, including Manchester United's all-time top goalscorer, Wayne Rooney.

"What I really like about him is he's put himself in some really good positions," Rooney said. "I've been really impressed by him. He looked like the one who could go on and nick it."

Rooney added: ""[He was a] little bit naive with some of his chances but I think it's really encouraging for Manchester United. They've obviously got Zirkzee and Hojlund not scoring. Now, that might be another option moving forward in the season."

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Ruben Amorim gave his take on the much-debated striker situation at Old Trafford following Sunday's defeat.

Speaking in his post-match media duties, he said: "Anything can happen in the next games, during training, we don’t have a lot of time to train but we need to see the opposition, feel the moment of the player physically, with a lot of games, because we are going to start playing Thursday-Sunday.

"Anything can happen but I will focus just on the next game and not in that way I’m not going to change the striker. I will just choose the best players to win the next match."

He added: "We have a problem with goals. Today we create situations but even in the last game sometimes you felt just with set pieces we are going to make some danger," he said.

"The first step is to create situations. Today we create but we have to improve that to help our forwards and strikers to score."