Brendan Rodgers insists there should be no blame on Angel Rangel for the mistake that led to Manchester United’s winning goal<\/p>\n
Rodgers said after the game\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re going to blame anyone, blame me<\/p>\n
\u201cAngel has been fantastic so there is no blame on him. The blame is on me, because I ask the players to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe could have had his touch and smashed ball up the pitch. We look to pass our way out of trouble, but Rangel was just slightly off balance trying to play around the corner and it\u2019s gone to Ryan Giggs.<\/p>\n
\u201cRyan was brilliant all night even though he is almost as old as me and he took a great touch into the box and they score.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are learning all the time and I do think we were a wee bit stand-offish in the first half, we didn\u2019t press the ball how we wanted to which meant United were too comfortable.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe players may have been a bit over-awed. But I understand that, it\u2019s a matter of how much belief you have.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of these guys have played in League Two and how they performed at this level is fantastic, but at half-time we put our game back in order.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd in the second half we were outstanding and deserved something from the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the big chance in the first-half but missed it and United scored theirs and that was the difference.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou would have expected Scott to have scored it and he is disappointed. But when you see the ground he has made up just to get there it is incredible.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is still bitterly disappointed as that was a straightforward chance really, it was an open goal seven yards out, \u2013 but I was pleased he got there and if he keeps getting in there the goals will come.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe said at half-time we needed to organise our game better but our mentality was the biggest thing, and then we played how we can play against a top team and there is a lot there to take forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very proud of the players, in the second half we showed that quality we have and we were outstanding. We will move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Brendan Rodgers insists there should be no blame on Angel Rangel for the mistake that led to Manchester United’s winning goal Rodgers said after the game\u00a0\u201cIf you\u2019re going to blame anyone, blame me \u201cAngel has been fantastic so there is no blame on him. The blame is on me, because I ask the players to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}