'Mistake after mistake' - Marco Silva bemoans lack of 'control' as Manchester United grab win at Fulham

Fulham manager Marco Silva admitted his frustration with his team after they conceded an injury-time goal to lose 1-0 to Manchester United on Saturday.

The Cottagers had some decent spells of possession and United goalkeeper Andre Onana was impressive again to keep Silva’s men from scoring.

But in the 91st minute, Fulham failed to clear the ball from the penalty area and United captain Fernandes won the match with a neat finish from the edge of the box.

After coming close to a point, and at times looking likeliest to be the winner, Silva told TNT Sports of his disappointment.

“Frustration really, disappointing with what happened in the last minutes of the game,” he began.

“Very good second half from us, more balance. Not many shots at goal. 50-50 game if I can say - second half, we had good spells.

“There was a 20-25 minute spell, We were on the front foot, our chances were probably the better. When you arrive in so many good areas we should have created more, and the moment was the moment for us to score. We had to score and unfortunately we didn’t when the game was going.”

Silva was clear that he did not consider his team unfortunate to have lost the match, saying that concentration was a necessity and the players paid for not being switched on until the end.

He explained: “It is clear people are going to talk about unlucky, for me it is not unlucky. I already told the players we have to keep in emotional control, we have to be there until the last second of the game, and in one moment we had no reason to be in panic or be like that.

" is difficult to understand for us. We have to grow, it’s not a matter of learning or not. We have to grow as a team but it was not something collective, it was clear it was individual from one, two, three players in 10 seconds, and of course its difficult to understand. It’s clear we lost emotional control in that moment.”

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