Ahead of United's match against Southampton, England left-back Luke Shaw said: "We can win the Champions League!" But he seemed to have forgotten that the task at hand should be to take down the Saints, and in the game, United repeated the same mistake, leading in the first half, equalizing in the second half, and Luke Shaw was the number one sinner who conceded the ball.
"Overall, of course this season hasn't been good enough." Luke Shaw said, "I think the team's goal is very different from the ranking we have now. Obviously, we were very frustrated with the FA Cup exit and we felt we should win that game. In the league, we're not ranked well enough, it's not where we should be. As things go, ups and downs, the current situation is not good enough for a team that wants to win the championship. The top team is stable, the level is high and it keeps winning, and we didn't do it."
But Luke Shaw stressed that United still have confidence: "We have studied and we need to improve, but we are still in the Champions League, many people doubt us, but the team has the belief that we can win the championship and it is important to have such confidence in the dressing room, it can work miracles."
Sadly, during the game, 26-year-old Luke Shaw didn't show the confidence he had in his remarks. He made amateur mistakes in defence that cost the team its lead. It's no secret that full-backs shouldn't be behind centre-backs in defence, but Luke Shaw made a fundamental positioning mistake as Southampton advanced.
Shortly after the start of the second half, Luke Shaw, who was dragging behind Maguire, allowed Southampton striker Che Adams to reverse the offside and single-handedly break De Gea's ten-finger mark. After the game, Luke Shaw also admitted that the team had lost confidence and calm. "History is really repeating itself, we said at half-time, but in the second half we let the opponent score early. We've been through this situation many times, where confidence drops and we don't have composure anymore."
Ironically, this is already the second consecutive game this week that Luke Shaw has made this mistake, in addition to gifting his old club, Manchester United away to Burnley, and also the England international standing at the end of the "assist" opponent, leaving Jay Rodriguez in a position of no offside, and finally equalizing.
Manchester United fans were very unhappy with Luke Shaw's performance and called on Ronnick to reactivate Brazil international Alex Tres. "Although United's goal conceded occurred on the right side, the culprit was the left-back." One fan angrily exclaimed, "Luke Shaw assists the opponent, this episode seems to have been seen not long ago."
In this season's Manchester United defence, Luke Shaw also has a "golden partner", that is, Maguire. The state of the two is worse than one, and Maguire has also made many mistakes in this game, including being broken by the opponent to form a single knife, but fortunately the other party did not seize the opportunity. Before the end of the match, Maguire also knocked down his opponent in his own penalty area and stomped on the opponent, but the referee did not award a foul. As a result, In this defensive error competition, Luke Shaw was "better".
Before this game, Lonnick also supported Maguire, saying that he would soon return to his peak form, but the facts told the Germans that if they did not have the courage to take the main position of England's two big players, United's defense could go wrong at any time.
After the game, the British "Sun" taunted Manchester United: the fear factor returned to Old Trafford, unfortunately, it was the Red Devils' losers who were afraid of their performances and made the fans feel frightened. Taking a lead by just one goal is not safe for United, they need an advantage of two or three goals to guarantee confidence. Note that in the match against Villa, even a two-goal lead was not enough, and they only got one point in the end. For any opponent, the Dream Theater is no longer terrible, and those who are afraid to play here are now only the people in red jerseys.