Annoyed footballer Bruno Fernandes mentioned if Manchester United can carry out at Anfield, they need to “do it in all places” after the crisis-hit facet secured a 2-2 draw in opposition to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday.
Cody Gakpo cancelled out Lisandro Martinez’s shock opener for United on Sunday earlier than Mohamed Salah put Liverpool forward from the penalty spot, however Amad Diallo scored a late equaliser.
United completed the match the stronger, and defender Harry Maguire spurned a last-kick likelihood to win the sport by firing over the bar from Joshua Zirkzee’s squared move.
The purpose for Liverpool takes them six away from second-placed Arsenal with a recreation in hand. United are manner down in thirteenth place, however at the very least they’ve ended their four-game shedding run.
“Now we have been criticised, and pretty,” United captain Fernandes advised Sky Sports activities. “Our place within the desk says all of it. Now we have misplaced too many factors. Even right this moment, we will’t be proud of a degree. We’d like the factors and we might’ve gained the sport on the finish, however it’s a good consequence. Each groups performed good soccer.
“I’m fairly upset. If we present this degree at Liverpool, first within the league, why can’t we do that in all places? It frustrates me. Additionally, lastly I did a correct efficiency. We mentioned we want far more from ourselves to get extra from this season.”
The midfielder mentioned subsequent week’s FA Cup tie at Arsenal can be robust for the holders however “we wish to get to the ultimate once more”.
“We all know how robust it’s to play in opposition to Liverpool,” he mentioned. “In the present day, we put in an actual effort to the sport. Enjoying with some ardour and coronary heart is what’s going to offer you one thing from the sport. It’s a must to put in effort and that’s why we took one thing from right this moment.
“It will probably’t cease right here. Now we have to convey this frustration to the following recreation to know this needs to be the extent. If we will do it at Anfield, we now have to do it in all places.”
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Liverpool skipper Virgil van Dijk mentioned it might have been worse for his staff if Maguire had transformed a late likelihood. “I’m undoubtedly disillusioned with dropping factors at dwelling however it’s what’s and we now have to maneuver on and we are going to,” he mentioned.
“We discovered the 2-1 after which it’s about making an attempt to handle the sport and maintain the ball for longer than three and 4 passes. We misplaced the ball too simply at instances after which we have been extra open than we must always have been. We’re not excellent. We’re nonetheless studying and we now have to study from this as nicely.”
The defender mentioned Liverpool had not underestimated United, regardless of their rivals’ troubles this season.
“That’s all of the media, media speak,” he mentioned. “It’s nothing to do with us. We ready for a really robust recreation like we now have seen right this moment. We didn’t assume any of that.”
United supervisor Ruben Amorim has endured a wretched begin to his time in cost at Outdated Trafford, with the membership slipping to 6 defeats in September, culminating within the four-match shedding streak.
“We’re in a troublesome second,” Amorim advised Sky Sports activities. “Should you play in opposition to Liverpool day by day, we are going to recuperate positions like that. However in case you play in opposition to any opponent, we might want to do it. Now we have confirmed we will do it. The best way we have been actually aggressive – that’s what we should be going ahead.
“It’s not simply the gamers, all of the workers within the membership. I’m comfortable for the efficiency, not for the outcomes. However I’m actually mad for the opposite video games,” Amorim continued after United slipped to that fourth straight defeat, and sixth within the month of December, in opposition to Newcastle on Monday.
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“In fact, we’re going to enhance in coaching, however it’s the manner we confronted the sport, not from the coaching,” he continued. “You possibly can ask any fan – the best way we battle, the best way we kick, the best way we battle for the ball. It’s so clear.
“In the present day I really feel the gamers actually wished it. The necessary factor is to not loosen up tomorrow and return to the identical performances. I’ll do every thing to make the gamers perceive, they should undergo in a recreation. I’m actually making an attempt on the fundamentals and we now have to maneuver on.
“Congratulations on the efficiency, however not the consequence. Everybody will say the gamers did every thing proper, so I’m allowed to be upset [with them for the other results] right this moment.”
