Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes admitted he was “upset” after Sunday's draw against Premier League leaders Liverpool, despite it being one of the team's best performances under fire this season.
United went into the game at Anfield after a poor December, in which they lost six of ten games in all competitions – including five of seven in the Premier League alone.
Given that Liverpool have set the standard at home and in Europe this season, also having won 3-0 in the reverse fixture at Old Trafford in September, most people expected United to continue their run.
But Lisandro Martinez gave Ruben Amorim's side the lead in the second half. While Liverpool then scored twice to take the lead, Amad Diallo equalised Claim a deserved point. It was further proof of this unitedhaving also beaten Manchester City in recent weeks, is capable of producing such performances, which in turn has been a source of frustration for Fernandes with inconsistency.
“I think it's a really good result,” the midfielder said. sky Sports.
“We could have won the game in the end. It's a fair result. I'm upset because if we showed this against Liverpool, why can't we do it every week? Finally I had a decent performance overall. We need more.” “From ourselves to get more from this season.”
Looking to the future in light of the performance at Anfield, Fernandes revealed that he is actually more “worried” about facing struggling Southampton in the Premier League than Arsenal in the FA Cup.
“It was here but it didn't come until today's game,” he said. “Now we have an FA Cup match against Arsenal that will be very difficult again. We want to get to that final again. Maybe I'll be more worried about Southampton after that performance (against Liverpool).”
Amorim made similar comments After the final whistle, he admitted that seeing United play like they did at Anfield made him “crazier for the other games”.
