Alan Shearer fires accusation at Man Utd aces and labels Harry Maguire name 'embarrassing'
Alan Shearer didn't mince his phrases as he addressed Manchester United's shambolic show within the Europa League ultimate, the place they capped off a horrendous season with a 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur
Alan Shearer says Manchester United didn’t wish to win the Europa League ultimate as a lot as Tottenham did. The pundit and former England striker went on to slam the Crimson Devils’ techniques, calling their last-ditch makes an attempt to attain by placing Harry Maguire up entrance “embarrassing”.
Two of the Premier League’s worst sides this season produced a really forgettable Europa League ultimate on Wednesday night time. Spurs, ravaged by accidents all season, took the lead 42 minutes in by means of Brennan Johnson after a comedy of errors by Luke Shaw and Andre Onana noticed the ball brush onto the Tottenham winger and trickle in on the close to put up.
The north Londoners sat deep for the remainder of the match as Ruben Amorim’s aspect chased the sport and dominated the second half possession stats. However United supplied no creativeness of their attacking play and resorted to lumping balls into the field – to no avail – as Spurs held agency to win 1-0 and declare their first trophy in 17 years.
United even used central defender Maguire as a makeshift striker within the ultimate 10 minutes as one final throw of the cube, which didn’t come off. And Shearer, talking on The Relaxation Is Soccer podcast, blasted the Crimson Devils’ techniques on the finish of the sport whereas calling into query their want to win on the night time.
The previous Newcastle captain stated: “It was simply [Spurs] our bodies on the road attempting to chuck themselves in entrance of no matter Man United had been throwing at them. And so they did that.
“Man United by no means did sufficient, they had been rotten and so they’ve been rotten all season. They’ve been terrible, it’s been embarrassing for them.
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"Spurs deserved it, I assumed. I feel they wished it extra and so they had been up for it greater than United, that was obvious to me.”
Venting his frustration at their reliance on Maguire to attain, he added: “Let me say one factor to you, Man United had been a humiliation tonight. And within the semi-final.
“They chuck a 6ft 4in centre half as much as centre ahead in desperation within the final ten minutes of the sport, lugging enormous balls into the field.
“That’s the way you’re going to get out of hassle? That’s how they received to the ultimate, due to Maguire going into that place.
“Man United should not the membership that they had been 20 years in the past, solely by identify. They’re 1,000,000 miles off it each on and off the pitch. I don’t know the way they’re going to recover from this.”
United’s solely large possibilities got here from crosses, with Leny Yoro failing to satisfy a Bruno Fernandes free-kick whereas Rasmus Hojlund’s header was cleared off the road. Fernandes himself additionally fizzed a header previous the put up, whereas Guglielmo Vicario made a final gasp save to maintain out Luke Shaw’s header in added time.
As Spurs lifted their first European trophy since 1984 and cemented their place in subsequent season’s Champions League, United misplaced to Ange Postecoglou’s aspect for the fourth time this season.
The night time was broadly thought to be a brand new low for a membership which has misplaced all sense of identification within the years since Sir Alex Ferguson’s departure. For United, there will probably be no European soccer subsequent season off the again of their worst ever Premier League end to this point.
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