Ruben Amorim admitted his frustration with Arsenal’s power at set-pieces throughout Manchester United’s 2-0 loss in north London on Wednesday night time.
The Crimson Devils saved the Gunners at bay till the 54th minute when Jurrien Timber nodded in from a nook, earlier than William Saliba transformed from the same situation to safe a 3rd Premier League win on the trot for Mikel Arteta’s facet, taking them inside seven factors of leaders Liverpool.
It meant Amorim suffered his first defeat since taking on as United head coach and the 39-year-old highlighted the hosts’ skill from dead-ball conditions as a deciding issue within the consequence of the match.
He stated after the sport: “We already knew that it will be a tricky recreation. I feel the corners modified the sport, the set-pieces. Then we misplaced the momentum, we tried every little thing then to manage the sport once more.
“You are feeling it within the first half, within the setting of the stadium, that we have been inflicting issues. We have to enhance in lots of areas of our recreation, however we have been controlling the sport.”
United have been strong for a lot of the encounter however struggled to create high quality probabilities towards Arsenal‘s agency rearguard, mustering an xG tally of simply 0.22 as Rasmus Hojlund, Alejandro Garnacho and Mason Mount spluttered in assault.
Amorim added: “They [Arsenal] are excellent as a result of they’ve lots of time engaged on that [set-pieces].
“Particularly on that, they’ve large gamers for that, so it’s a technique, and we had two weeks to work on that. We tried to do it however we all know each crew within the Premier League is struggling with set-pieces. It was a disgrace as a result of we weren’t enjoying very effectively but additionally Arsenal was not enjoying very effectively.
“You possibly can see it in each event that [Bukayo] Saka and [Gabriel] Martinelli has one towards one, lots of occasions they go outdoors and cross. They already know if the cross goes effectively, they’ll rating. If it is a nook, they’ll rating.
“So we now have to be higher on that state of affairs however like in each space of our recreation we want time to enhance additionally. However you possibly can see in all Arsenal video games each crew has an issue with that.”