Robin Van Persie disclosed yesterday that after going down 3-5 against Leicester City, the whole Red Devils’ squad sat together and had a bit of a confrontation. In that meeting, there were talks about certain areas where the team has been faltering.
According to Van Persie, defence has certainly been an issue for his team, but, the central forward also believes that there are errors being committed in other areas as well.
In that Leicester game, United was looking like getting home when they were 3-1 up, but, in the last half an hour, the hosts turned the table in style, smashing 4 goals, one after the other, to leave the visiting supporters shell shocked.
Robin Van Persie disclosed yesterday that after going down 3-5 against Leicester City, the whole Red Devils’ squad sat together and had a bit of a confrontation. In that meeting, there were talks about certain areas where the team has been faltering.
According to Van Persie, defence has certainly been an issue for his team, but, the central forward also believes that there are errors being committed in other areas as well.
In that Leicester game, United was looking like getting home when they were 3-1 up, but, in the last half an hour, the hosts turned the table in style, smashing 4 goals, one after the other, to leave the visiting supporters shell shocked.
In the words of Van Persie, “It definitely would not have happened if we had done our job properly, but, that’s sports for you. It’s a leveller. You are going to have days like these on the pitch.”
“We do have talked about it. The players and the management staff had a meeting the other day and various things got talked about there. Defence was obviously one of them, but, we’ve work to do in other departments too.”
“We often talk about that very point where the error is committed, but, we forget where it began. You would always find that one error leads to another. So, there must be errors before the defensive errors, in the midfield or at any other position. We need to focus on all those things.”
Van Persie was, however, one of the shining lights for the Red Devils in Leicester as the Dutchman, after a while, appeared to be at the peak of his game. He started the scoring for his team converting a cross from Falcao into a goal.