Rashford has scored just four goals this season after a career-high 30 last term

Less than six months ago, Marcus Rashford had Manchester United at his feet. Fresh of scoring a career-best 30 goals last season, he signed a new five-year deal worth £325,000-a-week in July.

With Erik ten Hag looking to build upon a successful debut season in England, the 26-year-old was meant to be one of United's cornerstones.

Fast forward to the end of January and Rashford was fined two weeks wages for failing to report to training after his ill-advised night out in Belfast.

The England international was 'clearly on a mission to get drunk', according to accounts of his 12-hour tequila bender, and collapsed into bed fully-clothed in the early hours of the morning.

While ten Hag is determined to draw a line under the matter, the incident is the second time this season Rashford has found himself in the spotlight for being out partying.

Worryingly for ten Hag, the forward's contribution on the pitch this season has been as negligible as his nightclub antics have been prominent with Rashford and United regressing exponentially from a year ago.

Here, Mail Sport looks at the numbers behind Rashford's decline this season.

Goals

Goals are ultimately the currency all strikers are measured on and the numbers make grim reading for Rashford.

The England international has scored just four goals in 26 appearances in all competitions this season, with half of that tally coming in the last two Premier League games.

By comparison, last season Rashford scored a career-best 30 goals for United, becoming the first player since Robin Van Persie in 2012-13 to hit the milestone.

To put his struggles into context, Rashford had already scored 18 goals at the same stage of the season a year ago.

His goals-per-match average has dropped from 0.53 last