Fernandes: 'All the derby goals were avoidable'

Bruno Fernandes has criticised Manchester United's lack of control in Sunday's 3-0 defeat at Manchester City, the captain stating that each of the goals his team conceded at the Eti-had Stadium could have been avoided.

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Phil Foden's header came after Jérémy Doku moved too easily past Luke Shaw, while Doku's assist for Erling Haaland's first goal derived from the space allowed by United's defence. The Norwegian's second goal was a breakaway finish, and again resulted from suspect defending by the visitors. Defeat leaves United with four points from their opening four games of the season.

"We have to be more in control of certain situations," said Fernandes. "We conceded three goals that should have been avoided. We keep creating chances to score and we are not able to score as many as we wanted. What we did was not enough to get the result.