Red News 29th January 2021

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Maguire says words after MUFC lose to Sheffield United


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“When you do get a defeat, there’s nothing worse than waiting to get back out on the pitch to play and put things right,”

“The boys are devastated, if I’m honest. It’s a really quiet dressing room. The boys are so disappointed; we didn’t expect it, we came into the game confident.

“We’ve got to pick ourselves up. We are disappointed and it hurts, but Saturday is a big game and we’ve got to bounce back.

“It’s all good and easy when you’re winning football matches and you’re playing well, but now it’s time to stand up and be counted.

“When you get kicked down, it’s how quickly you bounce back and Saturday’s a big one and we’ve got to get three points.”

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Ole talking about that defeat to Sheffield


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“Of course, you analyse the games as you normally do. I think a lot was made of it because it was top against bottom, but that’s the Premier League. I think people showed a lack of respect for Sheffield United, because they’ve been unlucky this season. This game, they got what they deserved so many times earlier this season. They have got players who can hurt you, they've got an organisation that can hurt you, for years with Chris [Wilder]. We [are] disappointed, of course, [it's a] setback. When you don't hit your level in the Premier League, against any opponent, you’re asking for a tough game and we got one. Unfortunately, we just couldn't work it out in the 90 minutes.”

“You never want to lose a game to learn from it, you want to learn form the games you win. We’ve been terrific, we’ve been consistent, but it's that kind of season. We didn't expect to go through unbeaten since 1 November, of course we didn’t. But we wanted to and we still want to start a new run. We’ve always bounced back after defeats before. This season, we’ve done remarkably well after most of the defeats. There was one, we lost to Arsenal and then to Basaksehir [Istanbul] just after. But apart from that, we’ve always bounced back with a good performance. I expect everyone to perform well and let’s hope the result comes thereafter. You can never control the result.”

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Ole speaking today about the sickening and unacceptable abuse dished out to United players after the Sheffield United defeat

[Red News ... There's no justification for the comments made to the players. All of us are human beings, all of us individuals. The colour of somebody's skin is irrelevant]



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“It's just incredible that we have theses scenes still, or this abuse, still in 2021. We've been campaigning for a long time now in the Premier League and, to be honest, I think it's working but there are still some people that haven't got it. They hide behind social media, are anonymous and it's unacceptable. It's disgusting. Players and everyone, we've spoken to each other of course and they're fine, to put it that way. They're not Man United fans anyway when this happens. We're standing behind every single one of our players.”

“Axel's fine, [I've] spoken to him. Obviously it's not nice. He's a strong boy, a strong character; he's got good support from his family. We're his family in the club, his team-mates are his family. It's something we don't expect to see now but you're not really surprised when it happens once in a while because, as we said, there are some people you feel sorry for. That's what you have to do for these individuals.”

“I think the social media platforms needs to be looked at, yeah. If you can create anonymous accounts, abuse people, of course it's not right. We'll work together with everyone to stop this nonsense.”