Breaking news: Man Utd boss Ralf Rangnick gets brutal and explains players' reaction after Wolves defeat
Manchester United boss Ralf Rangnick has
spoken out after his side's 1-0 defeat to
Wolves on Monday night. The Red Devils
entered the game on a high after beating
Burnley just days ago. However, they were
brought crashing back down to earth with
the visitors emerging from the match with
all three points.
Manchester United were good against
Burnley on Thursday, winning 3-1 at Old
Trafford with Scott McTominay and Cristiano
Ronaldo both on target.
However, fans hoping that would be
a start of things to come were left stunned as
Wolves rocked the Theatre of Dreams on
Monday night.
Wolves were deserved winners, despite
Bruno Fernandes hitting the bar, with
Moutinho scoring the only goal of the game
with less than 10 minutes left on the clock.
It was a terrible night for the Red Devils,
who now face a huge fight to finish in the
Champions League qualifying slots after
the latest setback in their season.
And Rangnick has now spoken out, giving
his thoughts after seeing United slump to a
first defeat since he replaced Ole Gunnar
Solskjaer last month.
He brutally dissected the result, hitting
out at his players while insisting they're '
disappointed' with the result.
“In the first half, we had big problems
to keep them away from our goal.
"In the second half we changed to a back
three and had more control then a spell of
15 minutes where we could have scored.
The goal we conceded, we had enough
players in the box. The cross had been
defended by Jones but the goal we conceded
was like too many this season.
"Moutinho could shoot unmarked with
no problems, no pressure. We’re very
disappointed about the result and parts
of our performance.
“They’re playing with four or five central
midfielders and we had problems to control
that part of the pitch. We decided to change
our formation and we had more control –
they didn’t have as many chances – but we
missed our chances and we have to admit
they deserved to win.
“Wolves were the best team we’ve played.
We have more problems today than in
other games.
“We didn’t press at all. We tried but we
were not able to get into those pressing
situations. They had an overload in midfield
and they played via their wing-backs.
We’ve been only working two and a half or
three weeks after needing to close the training
centre. We had the results. In times we
played well but today we have to admit
they’re better than us."
On replacing Mason Greenwood with
Bruno Fernandes, he then added: “It was
0-0. Bruno had a big chance to put us 1-0 ahead.
"Mason was good but I had to take someone
off and didn’t want to take off one of
the sixes. I had to decide whether to take
off Edi or Mason so took off Mason.
“The game showed we still have a lot of
work to do. We had too many unforced errors.
“I don’t want to speak about individual
performances of players. It’s an issue of
the whole team. It doesn’t make sense.
"We have to see each individual game.
So far we had 10 out of 12 points. Today
we had our first defeat against a good team
. They don’t score that many goals, today
they scored the only goal. Today the question
was who will score the first goal.”
Wolves hero Moutinho, meanwhile,
admitted he was delighted with his late winner.
"What I want is to help the team. Winning
here at Old Trafford against a big team
is amazing for us," he said.
"We came here to play football, play with
the ball, that's what we do. We created a lot
of shots in the first half. They changed a little
bit to three centre-backs like us. We controlled
everything. We only let them create one
opportunity on the bar.
"We deserved it because of what we did
over 90 minutes. I hope we can continue with
this performance.
"Phil Jones headed out the ball. I tried to
see where it went. [After] my first touch
I said I need to shoot. That's what I need to
do, to shoot more. A beautful goal."
Wolves boss Bruno Lage added: "It is
one more victory.
"Lovely stadium, a place with a lot of history
but the most important thing is how we played.
"We played in our way, we controlled the
first half and missed a lot of chances.
"We win three points, and have more chances
than goals.
"We deserved the three points. Every time
I am positive and try to win the games.
This is football, they had one good chance
for Bruno."
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