The Irish centre-back claims that the backline needs to show more rigidity and keep out unnecessary goals in order to retain the club’s ambition of winning silverware this term.
Manchester United were far from their best last night after a string of errors nearly cost them three UEFA Champions League points at Old Trafford.
Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alexander-Büttner-c4818 on the flanks.
Although luminaries such as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/SC-Braga-c40460 dominated proceedings.
The Primeira Liga outfit scored twice through captain http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alan-c4244 and were poised to scoop up the win, but a late surge from the Red Devils in the second half proved to be the game changing moment.
Javier Hernandez found the back of the net two times, while Evans added another in between the Mexican’s strikes. United saw off the remaining minutes and emerged victorious despite having been below-par defensively for most of the game.
However, none of the players will be satisfied with their outings, especially the defenders, who according to Evans must improve quickly or the club could lose their quest for trophies this season.
“It’s happened quite a lot and is becoming a bit of a habit. We need to get a better start in the future, especially at http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 on Sunday. It’s going to be tough away games down there, they always are. I don’t think our record has been great over the past
few seasons. We have to go down there and make sure we put on a good away performance as we did at Newcastle.”
Continuing, the Ireland International added that recent results had been far from perfect at the Theatre of Dreams, which was mainly because of disarray and lack of focus at the back.
“But it’s poor from us as a team, just the basics like letting teams get crosses in so easily. Simple things like not talking to each other will cost us against the better teams," he concluded.
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