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Manchester United had been undone by a set piece but once more in tonight’s deflating 2-0 defeat at Wolverhampton Wanderers, however Harry Maguire insists “issues will change” in that space.
Chatting with Amazon Prime after the sport, Maguire expressed his frustration on the pink card proven to Bruno Fernandes, and pinpointed this because the second the sport modified.
“I felt like we had management within the first half with out doing a lot with it,” he stated. “Going into the second half, we wanted to up it and the pink card modified the sport. It’s arduous sufficient enjoying with 11 males within the Premier League.”
Wolves had the ball at the back of the web inside seconds of the United captain’s dismissal, though the aim was chalked off for offside.
However some ten minutes later the hosts did take the lead, as Matheus Cunha’s nook drifted immediately over a stranded Andre Onana in an unwelcome repeat of Son Heung-min’s effort for Tottenham Hotspur within the Carabao Cup final week.
Pointing to the depressingly regularity with which United concede from set items, Maguire stated: “Set performs are so essential in soccer matches, they determine video games. The primary aim has been a set play far too many occasions in opposition to us and it’s disappointing.”
When requested type this out, Maguire’s response was easy: “Work. Work. Work extra on the coaching pitch.”
He added: “I feel groups now are possibly concentrating on our space of set performs and the unusual factor is I don’t really feel like we’re conceding many possibilities from them.”
Groups is probably not creating possibilities from set items, largely as a result of they’re too busy scoring objectives from them – United have now conceded 18 objectives from set-pieces in 2024.
Returning to tonight’s match, Maguire stated: “They’ve had a number of set performs tonight and we’ve handled them very well after which they’ve gone and scored from one.
“I feel [the way to address the issues defending set pieces is] arduous work, maintain the idea, issues will change, I do know that.
“We’ve gamers who can defend the field properly and it’ll change we’ve simply obtained to stay collectively.”
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