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Manchester United’s struggles with defending set items carried on, as they slipped to a devastating loss by the hands of Bournemouth on Sunday afternoon.
Bournemouth gained 3-0 at United for the second season working to go away United in thirteenth place within the Premier League desk. That is the primary time United have spent Christmas within the backside half of the desk since 1989/90.
United conceded from a set piece for the seventh time within the final six video games for Bournemouth’s first aim as Dean Huijsen guided dwelling a first-half free-kick.
The Cherries went on to finish the victory by means of a Justin Kluivert penalty and Antoine Semenyo’s strike in fast succession after the break.
Amorim – who has endured a dismal begin to life at Outdated Trafford after dropping 4 of his first 9 video games in cost – mentioned he’s chargeable for United’s set-piece issues.
Lisandro Martinez additionally admitted that the crew’s vulnerabilities in defending set items contributed to their defeat towards Bournemouth.
The Mirror factors out that United have now shipped a staggering 17 set-piece objectives of the calendar yr, setting a brand new undesirable report for them within the Premier League period.
Huijsen’s headed end has statistically made it the worst yr for the Crimson Devils on the subject of defending set items in additional than 30 years.
When requested about this damning statistic, Amorim remarked [via ESPN], “We’re engaged on that and we’re going to enhance on that.”
“However we didn’t lose due to set items. We lose as a result of we create extra probabilities and we didn’t rating after which on this second every thing is towards us and so they can rating.”
“Like towards Tottenham, we create probabilities additionally. It’s a tough second.”
Throughout warm-ups earlier than matches, United have been commonly noticed lining up and defending set items however their efforts presently don’t appear to be bearing fruit.
United are again in motion on Boxing Day once they tackle Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux Stadium.
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