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Alexis Sanchez is playing ketchup: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer insists winger is like a bottle of tomato sauce... and the talent is ready to pour out! Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has compared Alexis Sanchez to a bottle of ketchup Manchester United boss believes that the winger's talent is going to pour out The Chilean has endured a tough start to life in his year at Old Trafford He has scored just twice in 19 appearances and has struggled to find any form 

By Chris Wheeler for the Daily Mail

Published: 22:30 GMT, 17 February 2019 | Updated: 08:04 GMT, 18 February 2019

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Alexis Sanchez has had to endure some unfavourable comparisons during his wretched Manchester United career, and on the eve of Monday’s FA Cup fifth-round clash at Chelsea he was likened to a bottle of ketchup by Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.

United’s caretaker boss was trying to be positive in his colourful analogy, but it felt somehow appropriate for a player who has failed to cut the mustard in 13 months at Old Trafford.

Jose Mourinho said we wouldn’t see the best of Sanchez until this season after his mid-winter move from Arsenal last January, but, if anything, he has been even more disappointing this term.

Man United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has compared Alexis Sanchez to a bottle of ketchup 

Man United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has compared Alexis Sanchez to a bottle of ketchup 

Sanchez has scored just twice in 19 appearances this season, a year after moving from Arsenal 

Sanchez has scored just twice in 19 appearances this season, a year after moving from Arsenal 

He has scored just twice in 19 appearances, too many of which have come off the bench for a player earning £350,000 a week. 

On Monday the 30-year-old winger is expected to be given another opportunity to start in the absence of Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard.

Solskjaer admits there is only so much he can do to help Sanchez improve. But he believes in the player’s talent and insists that once another goal comes,

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