Bruno Fernandes Hits Out At Manchester United’s Lack Of Control In Derby Loss

Bruno Fernandes has criticised Manchester United’s deficiency of power successful Sunday’s 3-0 conclusion astatine Manchester City, nan skipper stating that each of nan goals his squad conceded astatine nan Etihad Stadium could person been avoided.

Phil Foden’s header came aft Jeremy Doku moved excessively easy past Luke Shaw, while Doku’s assistance for Erling Haaland’s first extremity derived from nan abstraction allowed by United’s defence. The Norwegian’s 2nd extremity was a breakaway finish, and against resulted from fishy defending by nan visitors. Defeat leaves United pinch 4 points from their opening 4 games of nan season.

“We person to beryllium much successful power of definite situations,” said Fernandes. “We conceded 3 goals that should person been avoided. [And] we support creating chances to people and we are not capable to people arsenic galore arsenic we wanted. What we did was not capable to get nan result.

“All we person to return from this crippled is to look astatine what we request to do amended and spell guardant to nan adjacent game. We request to people goals and not concede. It is nan main point of football.”

Noussair Mazraoui conceded that United’s derby show was unacceptable. “I americium emotion bad,” nan wing-back told MUTV. “[I’m] disappointed successful myself, successful nan team, and disappointed for nan fans that we couldn’t bring nan capacity we did lately. A derby makes it much special, much emotional, truthful if you suffer and you person played bully and you person nan chances we created successful nan past games, you tin possibly judge it because location are still improvements. But [against City] was conscionable not bully enough.”

“It is difficult to opportunity [what went wrong] because you are ever afloat of emotion consecutive aft nan game, truthful I effort to calm down and analyse nan game,” added Mazraoui. “Otherwise I will constituent fingers and astir apt yet it is not [actually] nan guys aliases thing that I constituent retired now. I will analyse it myself and [with the] squad and effort to improve.”