Harry Maguire has taken the blame for Fulham’s late winner at Outdated Trafford, admitting that he ought to have fouled Adama Traore within the build-up to Alex Iwobi’s purpose.
Manchester United suffered a harrowing 2-1 defeat to Fulham within the Premier League on Saturday due to a 97th-minute purpose from ex-Arsenal man Iwobi. The defeat dropped at an finish a constructive run of outcomes for the Pink Devils, who’d gained their final 5 video games in all competitions heading into the weekend.
Maguire proved to be one of many protagonists of the sport at Outdated Trafford, controversially avoiding a pink card within the thirty fifth minute for a late problem on Sasa Lukic earlier than levelling the scores within the 89th with a header.
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Whereas the defender averted a pink card, his yellow would in the end nonetheless come again to hang-out Man Utd. Talking to MUTV after the loss, the defender admitted that he would’ve chopped down Traore – who burst by means of late to tee up Iwobi’s winner – had he not already been on a reserving.
“I used to be on a reserving myself, in hindsight, possibly I ought to have simply introduced him down, however then you definitely miss subsequent week. It is easy to say now,” admitted Maguire.
“We will look again and I’m positive we’ll assess it by way of areas that we will enhance on however, in the end, over the 90 minutes we didn’t do sufficient to win the sport.”
The defender additionally took the time to look forward to Man Utd’s FA Cup fifth spherical conflict with Nottingham Forest on Wednesday night, citing the sport as a possibility to bounce-back from a disappointing Premier League loss: “We all know it should be a tricky sport in midweek. Our full focus is on that one. We have got to bounce again.
“A giant response is required. It will be a tricky sport however we have got to go there and produce a efficiency like we did there final yr.”
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