Rashford ready to step up his recovery from home

In a normal season, Rashford concedes that he would have been coming back into the first-team picture – and looking ahead to Euro 2020 involvement with England – by now.

However, he admits that, on a personal level, it will benefit him in the long run to have a greater recuperation period than was first envisaged.

“Yeah, you know, for me, I was probably going to go back with the team towards the middle or end of April,” he adds. “But that would have been a push, obviously, because I didn’t want to miss the summer.

“I doubt I would have been 100-per-cent fit going into that tournament, or even finishing off the season, but that’s what we were aiming for.

“Obviously, since then, a lot’s happened with this virus so, for my body really, it’s been good to give it its full duration to rest.”