Man Utd 'flat' But Skinner Will Not 'overemphasise' Defeat

Pride comes earlier a fall, arsenic nan proverb goes.

Marc Skinner was bullishly singing nan praises of his Manchester United players for their eye-catching commencement to nan play a fewer days ago.

Intoxicated by nan joie de vivre of their play arsenic overmuch arsenic nan free-scoring which has seen them apical of nan goalscoring charts, he declared they were "playing amended shot than we've astir apt ever played".

United's 1-0 conclusion by Aston Villa and a lacklustre capacity successful nan Women's Super League (WSL) later and nan United boss' tune was inevitably much sombre.

"Flat. It was very flat," Skinner succinctly put it to BBC Radio 5 Live.

A look for illustration a bedewed play successful nan autumnal sunshine arsenic those successful reddish shirts trudged disconnected nan transportation astatine nan Leigh Sports Village, Skinner knew this was an opportunity missed for United.

Chelsea's 1-1 tie pinch Arsenal meant United would person gone apical had they beaten Villa. Instead they are 3 points down nan defending champions.

Will it beryllium 1 that Skinner laments later successful nan play erstwhile nan margins betwixt occurrence and nonaccomplishment mightiness beryllium much acute? Possibly.

"To deliberation astir nan array now is simply a spot crazy. We don't really look astatine different teams truthful we don't attraction astir different results," insisted United skipper Maya le Tissier.

But whereas Skinner, arguably, sewage carried distant pinch their commencement - based connected his nationalist comments astatine slightest - he was adamant location will beryllium nary overreaction to this result.

It was a tepid performance, an disconnected day, but United person shown successful nan 7 WSL games which preceded this 1 they person nan imaginable to beryllium successful nan operation this season.

"You are going to person level performances. But I don't want to overemphasise nan situation," he explained.

"Sometimes these [results] happen. I thought Villa's extremity was a scrappy, scruffy, extremity from a set-piece. It happens and sometimes it goes against you."

Skinner felt United needed to beryllium "cleaner successful our actions and our techniques" which he wanted his "players to ain arsenic well", while Le Tissier acknowledged they "didn't do our basics well".

This was acold from an perfect commencement to what could beryllium a pivotal week successful their play for United, of course.

Paris St-Germain sojourn Old Trafford successful nan Champions League connected Wednesday. Then location is nan mini matter of nan derby against Manchester City connected Sunday, 16 November.

"As a corporate we'll move guardant and beryllium amended going into nan PSG game," Skinner added.

"We'll move guardant and we are really bully astatine bouncing backmost and usage that arsenic power - and that's what we'll do connected Wednesday."