Harry Maguire feels Manchester United’s issues aren’t associated to techniques, and claimed the gamers are “not mentally centered”.
United boss Ruben Amorim labelled his aspect as “possibly the worst within the membership’s historical past” following the weekend defeat to Brighton.
The Portuguese made clear immediately he was referring to his personal efforts since changing Erik ten Hag in November, quite than criticising the gamers, however skilled defender Maguire insisted they need to take their share of the blame.
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United have fallen behind in every of their final 5 league video games and conceded the opening purpose inside 5 minutes thrice.
Talking forward of tomorrow night time’s Europa League sport in opposition to Rangers at Previous Trafford, Maguire stated: “If I might clarify it, we’d change it straightaway.
“We’ve got gamers who’ve gained a number of trophies in membership soccer however we aren’t enjoying properly sufficient as a group.
“We gave Brighton a purpose. We had spoken about it pre-match. The primary purpose in opposition to Nottingham Forest was a set play – and in opposition to Bournemouth.
“These aren’t issues which are tactically an issue. You need to be mentally able to win a match. In the intervening time we aren’t getting the small margins as a result of we aren’t mentally centered.”
Rangers will probably be a stiff check – Maguire
A win in opposition to Rangers would all however safe United a spot within the knockout levels however Maguire is just not anticipating a simple night time in opposition to the lads from north of the border.
He added: “We anticipate a troublesome sport, we all know they’ll come right here and provides all they’ve obtained and convey an excellent help.
“They’ve completed extraordinarily properly within the competitors so we anticipate a troublesome sport however we are going to give attention to ourselves and ensuring that we carry out after a troublesome defeat on the weekend.
“We’ll go into the sport with confidence that we will carry out and get the three factors.”