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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes has insisted that the chase for a top-four end is over for the membership after their newest embarrassing outcome by the hands of Manchester Metropolis.
United have been overwhelmed 1-3 by Pep Guardiola's ruthless facet on the Etihad.
Marcus Rashford opened the scoring with a thunderous screamer simply eight minutes into proceedings. Nonetheless, Metropolis progressed within the sport and have been awarded the prize.
Phil Foden's brace and Erling Haaland's late aim sealed victory for the reigning Premier League champions and heaped extra distress on Eric ten Hag.
In the mean time, qualifying for the Champions League appears like an uphill battle for the Pink Devils, who’re presently in sixth place and 11 factors behind fourth-placed Aston Villa.
Fernandes spoke to Sky Sports activities after the ultimate whistle and gave his verdict on the defeat in opposition to Metropolis.
“I feel there was dedication from the group,” the playmaker stated.
“We had possibilities. Generally we performed a bit too deep however you recognize Metropolis do it with all groups, you must defend your field and we did rather well within the first half. “The one probability that might have been ours ended 1-1.”
“In sport you possibly can all the time do one thing higher, whether or not it's Metropolis or anybody else, you possibly can all the time do one thing higher. Metropolis are a group that is aware of how one can hold the ball and pin groups again. We knew we needed to defend our aim rather well and I feel we did, we needed to have extra spells with the ball than we did within the second half.”
“Each time you don't win a sport, it's a loss to this membership. We all know what this membership calls for and we need to win the video games we’re concerned in.
“We didn’t get the three factors at this time however there’s nonetheless a protracted solution to go,” Fernandes stated. We all know all the things will not be in our palms as a result of different groups will lose factors however we’ve to do our job.
🗣 “We needed to defend our aim actually, rather well, and I feel we did.”
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes admits his group ought to have seen the ball extra in opposition to Manchester Metropolis ⚽️🔴 pic.twitter.com/z1Ld97Gr0U
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United subsequent face Everton at Outdated Trafford on Saturday.