Paul Scholes calls for Bruno Fernandes ‘take accountability’ for Man Utd collapse
Paul Scholes hit out at captain Bruno Fernandes and advised him to ‘take responsibility’ for his function in Manchester United’s collapse in opposition to Galatasaray within the Champions League on Wednesday.
United headed to Turkey in search of their first ever Champions League win away at Galatasaray on the fourth try and so they appeared on the right track on the hour mark. An early purpose from Alejandro Garnacho obtained the guests going, earlier than Fernandes and Scott McTominay netted both facet of ex-Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech’s free-kick.
Despite Erik ten Hag’s facet being 3-1 up, all of it fell aside once more for United as an Andre Onana howler gifted Ziyech his second of the sport earlier than the Cameroonian was caught out at his close to put up by Kerem Akturkoglu simply 10 minutes later because the Red Devils had been shortly pegged again to 3-3.
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Late probabilities for Facundo Pellistri had been wasted and United had been left backside of the group with qualification to the knockout phases hanging by a thread. Onana got here in for heavy and apparent criticism for his three errors for each purpose however Fernandes’ function was put underneath the microscope by Scholes for the 2 ‘stupid’ fouls he gave away which led to each of Ziyech’s targets.
Speaking on TNT Sports at full-time of United’s attract Turkey, Scholes mentioned: “It was another game where we could have closed the game. We had too many chances, as I’ve said, and mistakes by ourselves.
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“It’s too dangerous, to be trustworthy. I do not need to be too adverse, however what we have been doing within the Champions League just isn’t sufficient. We have to manage our video games each time, it isn’t the primary recreation we have had like this.”
Talking about United’s captain, Scholes added: “I do know in his interview he’s speaking about errors, however he made two large errors tonight by giving two silly fouls away that led to 2 targets.
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“The full team, including himself as the captain, have to take responsibility – it’s a game they should win. They just cannot keep clean sheets – the defence is all over the place, the keeper is making mistakes, Bruno giving away cheap free-kicks. It makes the game difficult for them every time and they don’t need to do that.”
United’s incapacity to discover a successful purpose now means they have to beat confirmed group toppers Bayern Munich at dwelling and want Copenhagen and Galatasaray to attract in Denmark within the last group recreation.