While Fernandes appeared to believe that the officiating played a role in United’s defeat, his team-mate Maguire blamed their own naivety for allowing Fulham to break forward and score their second in the dying embers of the match.
“To be a goal behind, I thought our reaction was brilliant especially in the last 30 minutes and when we equalised probably only one team going to win it,” he said. “We were probably naive in the end by throwing too many bodies forward and getting done on the counterattack.
“Overall on the balance of play we didn’t do enough in the first 60 minutes or so, we started the game not great.”
