That’s the lot from me. Congrats to Ronaldo on 700 club goals, and congrats to Man Utd on the win. Thanks for reading and emailing, and see you next time.
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Frank Lampard speaks to BT: “The game was lost in the first half from our point of view. It was a performance short of where we’ve been … against a team the quality of Manchester United, I think if you make mistakes, turnovers that lead directly to goals, it’s a big threat of theirs, always has been, and we allowed that, so that’s disappointing.
“It was a great start. But maybe in effect it made us a tiny bit passive off the ball, we sat in a bit there, we were late to things … it was better in the second half … it’s disappointing, because we had been moving in the right direction, and we get checked. It might not be the worst thing in the long term.”
Lampard is asked if the Antony goal rattled them: “It’s just a goal that’s … normal, isn’t it? They score a goal when you go 1-0 up, you feel like we’re playing well recently, so you feel like you might be able to sort of exert some authority on the game, and that didn’t really happen, to be fair to them, they had good possession and moved the ball well … when you look at it in the cold light of day, it’s two mistakes from us that lead directly to their goals, and those goals affect the result.
“Alex Iwobi plays at a really high level, he’s been doing that for a long time last season and into this season … he wants more goals in his game … his performance in itself was good …
“A little bit of the tactical discipline of the team, in the first half, I wasn’t in love with first half.
“A lot of people talk about Man U, the result last week [the 6-3 defeat against Man City], or whatever. The reality is they have got really good players and a good way of playing and if you can’t affect them and get close to them, they can gain a bit of control in the game. And in the first half we allowed them to do that.”
