Wayne Rooney Wants All To Know: March 16th, 2014 Game Against Liverpool, My Worst Day Of Football Career
Wayne Rooney has described Manchester United’s defeat to Liverpool on Sunday
as disastrous, admitting it was one of the worst days of his career.
Rooney said the Reds’ dressing room was “like a nightmare” following the 3-0
loss, which leaves David Moyes’ side in seventh place, 18 points adrift of
Barclays Premier League leaders Chelsea.
“It’s one of the worst days I’ve ever had in football,” Rooney told MUTV.
“It’s hard to take. You have to give Liverpool credit – they played well – but
it’s difficult to take. Nobody wants to lose, especially in this way, in your
own stadium. It’s not nice.”
United went into the half-time break 1-0 down after Steven Gerrard converted
from the penalty spot and things got worse within 30 seconds of the restart when
the Reds conceded a second spot-kick – this time for a Phil Jones shove on Joe
Allen.
Liverpool then missed another penalty later in the match after Nemanja Vidic
was sent off for a tackle on Daniel Sturridge that earned him a second yellow
card.
“To go behind by one penalty was hard to take,” Rooney said. “We had a game
plan for the second half, which went out the window when they got the second
penalty so early on.
Manager, David Moyes also told MUTV: “It made it an uphill battle to come
back. I thought after that we had a couple of chances where I thought, if we got
one, we could have gone for a second and maybe we could have done it.”There’s
disappointment for everybody – all the Manchester United supporters – that we
didn’t get the result today, and disappointment about the goals and the way they
were conceded.”
“With the penalty kicks, some were but some weren’t [correctly awarded]. We
didn’t play well enough in the first half but we weren’t necessarily a goal
worse off at half-time.
“I thought we could come out and start brightly and get ourselves back in the
game but, before we’ve even taken our seats, we’ve given a penalty kick
away.
“Things didn’t go for us at all. When we were 2-0 down we had a spell where
we played quite well and tried to get ourselves back in the game with one or two
half-chances. But they weren’t enough and the last thing we needed was to lose a
player.
.Reports and photos from Manchester United website
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