Koeman: We did not lose to Man United, we lost to ourselves

Ronald Koeman believes his Southampton team defeated themselves in the 2-1 loss to Manchester United on Monday evening.

Robin van Persie scored a brace as United beat Southampton at St. Mary’s to compound Koeman’s side to a third loss in nine days.

However, the former Barcelona defender believes his players defeated themselves after missing a whole host of chances.

“We did everything, we created chances. But we also did mistakes,” Koeman told reporters.

“Maybe they [United] did more mistakes than we did but they have players who handle those kind of mistakes and that was the difference today.

“At this level detail makes the difference in football. You can talk about who deserved it, who played offensively, who pressed, but everything is s*** because we lost.

“I said to my players, we did not lose gainst Man United tonight; we lost by ourselves.”

Despite their recent run of poor results, Koeman is committed to maintaining the same style which has seen the South coast side perform well.

“I like to see my team playing football in the way that we’ve started this season,” he added.

“If we lose or we win, that’s our way of playing because I believe in that way of playing even now when we’ve lost the last three games.

“(Manchester) City were the much better team but we deserved more against Arsenal, we deserve much more tonight but we did mistakes.

“If you give players like Van Persie those kind of mistakes, he will punish you – he will punish you for sure.”


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