“They gave up, shame on them.”- Roy Keane disappointed with the way Manchester United lost the Manchester derby
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Roy Keane was furious with the Manchester United players following their embarrassing performance leading to a 4-1 loss against Manchester City. The Manchester United legend feels that the United players did not show heart and gave up as soon as City scored the third goal.
Speaking on Sky Sports after the game, Keane said: “In any game, to give up, it’s unforgivable really, the beauty of top-level sport is that there’s no hiding place.
“We saw all of the [Manchester] United shortcomings today, there’s way to lose football matches, we’ve all lost football matches, but the way United lost it today, they stopped running, they gave up.
“There’s players not running back, that’s what I don’t understand, when you’re playing for Man United, that’s really unacceptable, they threw the towel in which is shameful.”
He added: “You’ve got to run back, you’ve got to tackle – we’ve just seen a reflection of where the team is and where the club is, they’re just so far the other teams.
“I’ll forgive mistakes, but you’ve got to run back. There’s players out there that should never play for Man United again, just shameful, shameful.”
With this loss, Manchester United are out of the Premier League top 4 as Arsenal registered a 3-1 win against Watford. United host Tottenham Hotspur in their next Premier League match on Saturday, March 12.
Kevin de Bruyne feels Manchester United played different
Despite going into halftime with a goal down, the first half of the derby was relatively good for the Reds. Rangnick‘s men created quite a few chances and were a constant threat for City on the counter.
Talking to the media after the game, Kevin de Bruyne who scored two very important goals shared his thoughts on the game where he said that Manchester United played ‘differently’.
He said, “United played very differently to other occasions. I think they tried to press us and they [did] pretty well in the first half.
So, we had a little more difficulties to get the ball around, but in the second half we found more opportunities to create chances, to have more spaces, and we did well.”
With this win, Manchester City retake their 6 points lead ahead of rivals Liverpool who have a game in hand.
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