Manchester United drew 1-1 with Fulham at Craven Cottage after Emile Smith Rowe's equaliser cancelled out a second-half opener that came from a Rodrigo Muniz own-goal. The United manager said the team tried to shut up shop after scoring and must grow up, praising the players' work in training and promising improvement. Bruno Fernandes missed a first-half penalty, sending the ball over the bar; the miss was attributed to nerves by the manager, while Fernandes blamed a referee bump disrupting his routine but accepted personal responsibility. Fulham produced an impressive performance and matched United.
They were well matched by an impressive Fulham. We want to win so badly, and that is a good feeling. We scored a goal and everyone on the pitch was thinking: Let's hold on to the advantage and try to win the game.' We have to grow up a lot as a team. For me the most important thing is that during the week they were working really hard, today we worked really hard, and we are going to improve.
Fernandes himself put his uncharacteristic miss down to Chris Kavanagh, the referee, bumping into him before he took his kick. I was upset, he said. As a penalty taker, you have your own routines, your own things that you do. It upset me because the referee didn't apologise. That is what triggered me in that moment, but that's not the excuse for missing the penalty.
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