Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim admitted he knew his side would struggle because their players were not tall enough to handle set-pieces as Brentford lost 4-3 at Old Trafford. 
Mason Mount opened the scoring for the Red Devils early on but the Bees pulled one back and pulled one back, although their two goals were not enough to share a point.
“It was a game that typifies our season,” Amorim told แทงบอล UFABET ราคาดีที่สุด ไม่มีขั้นต่ำ after the game. “We started quite well. We didn’t create any clear chances but controlled the tempo.
“Then we struggled a lot with long throw-ins and set-pieces, which we knew would happen against this team. “
We weren’t tall enough to handle them. They used set-pieces to score two goals, although one came with De Ligt on the ground injured. “
I felt we were close to equalising in the second half, then we conceded two more in three to five minutes. We pushed and scored two more but there wasn’t enough time to do anything better. “
I have no doubt that overall we are getting better. We have to accept all the criticism at the moment. We are losing Premier League games, we are fighting for the Europa League and Thursday is the most important game for us.”
Despite the disappointing scoreline, Amorim’s side on Sunday fielded the club’s youngest average starting XI in the Premier League era (22 years and 270 days), while Chido Obi Martin (17 years and 156 days) broke Mason Greenwood’s record as the youngest to start.
“The young players did really well. They don’t play as often but they played the whole game today because we had to change some positions for Thursday.” The Portuguese coach saw the positives as well.
“In the little details, we could have helped the younger players a little more, especially Tyler Frederickson, who did really well for the third goal.
“Frederickson needed more help from Ahmad but I’m very happy with the performance of our young players.”