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Manchester United prevented one other embarrassing Europa League slip-up because of a last-gasp winner from captain Bruno Fernandes to sink Rangers 2-1 this night.
The Portuguese as soon as once more performed out of his pores and skin, and regardless of some irritating moments giving the ball away he was consistently seeking to be the catalyst to get his facet transferring ahead and threatening the opposition field.
However regardless of an in the end constructive consequence, chatting with TNT Sports activities after the ultimate whistle Fernandes was in reflective temper as he addressed United’s current run of poor kind.
“At this membership that you must win each recreation, that you must win each recreation,” he mentioned. “ that should you don’t win video games right here it’s going to be troublesome, there are going to be powerful moments as a result of it is a large membership which is used to profitable video games.
“I hope that our followers by no means get used to dropping video games, even on this hardest interval I need them to really feel that this group has to win each recreation.”
When requested if he was happy with the character the gamers confirmed to grab a late win from the jaws of mediocrity, he laid down a transparent marker for his expectations.
He mentioned: “It’s not about proving the character [late on], we’ve got to show that within the 90 minutes. We are able to’t solely deliver that out once we concede a objective and have one thing in opposition to us, we should be constant by means of the 90 minutes.
“It doesn’t matter the consequence, we’ve got to be all the time looking for a option to win the sport.”
Fernandes was additionally not shy of confronting the elephant within the room – the infuriating distinction between the group’s spirited performances in opposition to large golf equipment versus the turgid shows turned in in opposition to perceived lesser opponents.
He instantly referenced the context of tonight’s consequence, saying “clearly we all know how a lot it means for the followers to win video games, and it means the identical for us, we actually wish to win video games.”
He continued: “We’re a bit bit pissed off as a result of in the meanwhile, I believe we began this yr very effectively with two nice video games in opposition to Liverpool and Arsenal. In opposition to Arsenal we didn’t play sensible soccer however we gained the sport with one man much less, we did effectively.
“Then Southampton, we had good resilience regardless that once more we didn’t play sensible soccer. I believe at moments we managed the sport, however we might have executed it higher, after which we had the sport in opposition to Brighton the place sadly the whole lot went improper for us.
“However in the present day it was essential to get the win as a result of we wish to get by means of within the Europa League, we wish to go to the ultimate in Bilbao and we’ve got to win each recreation. We wish to be within the first eight so we keep away from taking part in two extra video games.”
United ended up with most factors tonight, however total it was not a very constructive show – Ruben Amorim will nonetheless be looking for a very resounding efficiency when his facet face Fulham on Sunday night.
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