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Marco Silva thinks Fulham “didn’t get the factors he thought they deserved” as they suffered a 1-0 defeat to Manchester United of their Premier League opener.
The Cottagers seemed a risk on the counter-attack however lacked a scientific edge within the ultimate third as they wasted probabilities to take the lead.
Bernd Leno saved them within the sport by making massive saves in each halves earlier than United debutant Joshua Zirkzee proved the distinction within the 87th minute from shut vary.
Whereas Silva admitted there have been positives to take from the efficiency, he was in the end left annoyed by the missed probabilities that price them.
“It’s actually robust for us to lose this sport the best way we misplaced,” Silva instructed Sky Sports activities.
“We began rather well. I feel the primary two harmful moments had been from ourselves. The primary one we must always have scored, a extremely harmful assault from us.
“We had our probabilities. Whenever you play towards Manchester United…there have been moments, and we needed to punish them.
“We had so many moments, and we had been punished on the finish of the sport. It was a loopy sport, and we didn’t play our personal sport. It was an emotional sport, we tried to hurry many, many instances.
“We didn’t get the factors I assumed we deserved.”
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Fulham managed 10 photographs within the match, although solely examined Andre Onana twice, with Kenny Tete forcing a superb save out of the goalkeeper with a type of within the first half.
Andreas Pereira additionally squandered two alternatives on the break with unfastened passes, and Silva is eager to fine-tune sure elements of their efficiency.
“After all, when you may have two towards one you must at the least finalise the motion and put your teammates in the correct motion,” he added. “However it was not simply that one, we had different actually good moments and may have scored.
“We’ve got to maintain the emotional management in some of these video games. We all know they’re robust and wish to play this kind of sport. It’s all the time their energy when the sport is damaged and the area is there. We should always have saved the stability and emotional management.
“However it was a superb reply from the staff total. It was a troublesome summer season while you lose 5 gamers – 4 of them beginning gamers. However I knew the gamers had been ok to play on this method.”
