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– Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has told his players they need to “look themselves in the mirror” after Manchester United’s horror run of form continued with a 4-2 defeat at Leicester City.
– Solskjaer’s team have won just one of their last five games and after a dire performance at the King Power Stadium, the Norwegian urged his squad to turn things around quickly when Atalanta visit Old Trafford in the Champions League on Wednesday.
– “We all need to do better, we have to do better,” Solskjaer told a news conference. “Every game in the Premier League and Champions League, they’re big games, all of them. Leicester is just as big a game as Atalanta.
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– “We’ve got to dust ourselves off and make sure we come in again and look ourselves in the mirror. That’s the nature of football, you’ve got to respond to setbacks.”
– Despite goals from Mason Greenwood and the returning Marcus Rashford, United were undone by a calamitous defensive display which saw Solskjaer’s team concede from a sloppy mistake from Harry Maguire, twice from set-pieces and once just 54 seconds after equalising to make it 2-2.
– Afterwards Solskjaer was forced to defend his selection of Maguire, who was only able to return to training on Friday morning after three weeks out with a calf injury.
– “It was my decision to play Harry,” he said. “He’s worked really hard on the rehab and he looked ready. He didn’t feel any after-effects after training.
– “He’s a big, massive player for us, the captain, the leader. We want to bring him back as soon as we can because he’s been so influential in our play.
– “We didn’t defend well enough and all of the goals were disappointing in how we conceded them.”
