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Harry Maguire Manchester United were delighted to end their “embarrassing” wait for consecutive Premier League wins and aimed for further success after victory over their rivals on Sunday. liverpool,
The Red Devils celebrated their first win at Anfield since January 2016 when Cody Gakpo canceled out Brian Mbuemo’s early opener, with the towering defender slotting home shortly after.
Maguire’s late header gives Boss a memorable 2-1 win Reuben Amorim Consecutive league wins for the first time since taking charge last November.
United last won consecutive league games in the same season at the end of the 2023/24 campaign and Maguire told the BBC: “It’s a real shame.
“This is not a situation we should talk about, because it is a shameful situation.
“Now that’s out of the way, let’s try and take it to three on Saturday against Brighton, because we’ve got to start putting a bit more consistency together.
“In the last three or four years we have performed like this and in the next game we are down again.
“We have set a benchmark. There are areas where we can do more, we were hanging in there and defending for the last 30 minutes.
“We will analyze it. The manager strives for perfection, so I’m sure he would want us to play better than in the second half. Great fight, great emotion, great victory, but we have to go again.”
Amorim echoed those sentiments as United turned their attention to the trip to Brighton.
“Of course it’s really important – I haven’t won many in Manchester,” said the Portuguese.
“It’s really important that it’s back to back, that it’s at Anfield.
“Every detail of this game is something I have been speaking about for some time – maintaining composure when we suffer a bad moment or a goal.
“All the little things were perfect today. Let’s try to do that next week. It’s really important.”
Sunday’s result dealt another blow to Liverpool as the champions suffered their fourth consecutive defeat in all competitions.
“I think as a manager you have to constantly face challenges,” the boss Arne Slott Eintracht said ahead of Wednesday’s return to action in the Champions League at Frankfurt.
“Now we have lost four times in a row and that is also a challenge, so the life of a football manager is a constant challenge.
“If you win the game, you want to keep winning. If you lose the game, you want to start winning again.”
“Do we lose confidence? I can’t see it yet, because every game we’ve lost, we were able to create incredible chances in the second half.
“If you look at the three games we have lost in the Premier League, if you put all the highlights back-to-back you would say it is hardly possible that they lose this game.
“So, if we can continue to produce what we’re doing and do some things a little bit better, there’s every reason to expect that we’ll start winning football games again.”
Slot said Ryan Gravenburch has an ankle injury and fellow midfielder alexis mac allister He required four stitches after being caught by Virgil van Dijk.
After Mbuemo scored the goal despite McAllister suffering a head injury, Slott said: “The main thing I have to do now is not complain, blame or things like that.
“We could have done a lot better, we should have done better once we got on the Mecca pitch, but the health care of players is something that is important and, if a player needs four stitches, you would hope that everyone would understand that he needs immediate treatment.
“It didn’t happen, but we still could have done better, so that’s not the reason for our loss today. The reason is that we missed too many chances to win the football game.”