Bruno admonishes Man United’s lack of control in 3-0 loss to City, while Mazraoui calls display ‘not good enough’.
The captain of Manchester United, Bruno Fernandes, has attacked his side’s lack of discipline in Sunday’s 3-0 loss to Manchester City, saying that every goal his team gave up at the Etihad Stadium should have been prevented.
While Jeremy Doku’s assist for Erling Haaland’s first goal came from the space created by United’s defence, Phil Foden’s header followed Doku’s too-easy move past Luke Shaw. The visitors’ dubious defence led to the Norwegian’s second goal, which was a breakaway finish. United now has four points from their first four games of the season after the loss.
“We have to be more in control of certain situations,” said Fernandes. “We conceded three goals that should have been avoided. [And] we keep creating chances to score and we are not able to score as many as we wanted. What we did was not enough to get the result.
“All we have to take from this game is to look at what we need to do better and go forward to the next game. We need to score goals and not concede. It is the main thing of football.”
Noussair Mazraoui conceded that United’s derby display was unacceptable. “I am feeling bad,” the wing-back told MUTV. “[I’m] disappointed in myself, in the team, and disappointed for the fans that we couldn’t bring the performance we did lately. A derby makes it more special, more emotional, so if you lose and you have played good and you have the chances we created in the last games, you can maybe accept it because there are still improvements. But [against City] was just not good enough.”
“It is hard to say [what went wrong] because you are always full of emotion straight after the game, so I try to calm down and analyse the game,” added Mazraoui. “Otherwise I will point fingers and probably eventually it is not [actually] the guys or something that I point out now. I will analyse it myself and [with the] team and try to improve.”