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
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,