Manchester United: Rooney Slams Poor Defending

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Manchester United captain, Wayne Rooney, has spoken out against his team’s poor defensive performance in the 5-3 defeat to Leicester.

United squandered a 3-1 lead to suffer their second Premier League defeat of the season in a dramatic encounter at the King Power Stadium.

“It’s really disappointing,” Rooney told Sky Sports. “Going 3-1 up especially and then losing the game, it’s hard to take.

“We should have done better as a team, seen the game out and won it from the position we were in. (There were) some mistakes and we didn’t do well enough as a team to stop their goals.

“It’s not nice when you concede goals when you know we can prevent them.

“They had the momentum with them in the last twenty minutes and we had to somehow try and find our composure and see the game out, but we failed to do that.”

Rooney continued by questioning Mark Clattenburg’s decision to award Leicester two penalties, including a particularly harsh decision against Rafael, which led to the momentum shift in the second half.

“I don’t think it was a penalty,” he added.

“I think it is very harsh but referees nowadays have got a very difficult job to do – we understand that.

“Mark (Clattenburg) had to make a decision on the spot of what he felt was right and we have to respect that.”

Manchester United are now 12th in the Premier League with only one win in the first five games of the season.

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