“He’s a young player who with the Euros coming, he wants to be in that England squad, so he has got a lot to fight for from now until the end of the season”. We needed some reward.
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“We hope he is successful here. We have given it away”, said the Dutchman, whose side had led 2-0. We could have made here six goals I think. “I have said that to the players”, he added. “I drove up through the night to be here so it’s been a manic 24 hours but it’s all been worth it to come here and play for this great club”.
Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney has admitted that the dramatic 3-3 draw against Newcastle United feels “like a defeat”. When something happens we will see.
“If we had scored more it would have been three successive wins at the start of the year going into Liverpool”.
The Magpies, however, kept the tempo up and pulled one back just before the interval through top scorer Georginio Wijnaldum before Mitrovic levelled the game through a penalty in the 68 minute.
Steve McClaren hailed his Newcastle United side’s “monumental effort” after they twice came from behind to draw 3-3 against Manchester United.
While Newcastle protested the decision, Rooney stepped up to slot the penalty past Elliot. “I have said in all my press conferences that you have to score one more goal than your opponent, and we didn’t do that”. They have shown everything tonight.
McClaren believed that both teams had answered their critics – United for their supposed lack of adventure and his own side for their alleged lack of fighting spirit. “We put ourselves in such a good position and we could have finished it a little bit earlier, but even when we did so well to get to 3-2, we need to hold on and be a bit stronger”.
“People were saying boing boring (Man) United and that we had questionable character”.
United supporters may not have ever seen their manager get as animated as they did – just after the hour mark – when Lingard blazed over.
Manchester United drop to sixth in the Premier League table after West Ham’s 3-1 victory over Bournemouth.
United took the lead on nine minutes after referee Mike Dean awarded the visitors a penalty, judging that Chancel Mbemba blocked Marouane Fellaini’s back-post header with his arm.
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“Lingard against Daryl Janmaat … that could have been a penalty”. Then they are heavyweight champions and you can judge who is the champion.
