Van Nistelrooy Incused as Leicester Output to Maguires ‘Offside Time’ Goal | FA CUP

A furious Ruud van Nistelrooy said Leicester was not defeated “in Fergie Time” but “in offside time” after Harry Maguir’s winner of 93. Without a video assistant judge in the competition until the next round, Maguir’s winner was not rehabilized despite the assistant judge being perfect in line to see he had violated.

“We are not defeated in the Fergie time, we are defeated on offside -time,” said Van Nistelrooy, referring to the extra minutes that opponents claimed were awarded to United when needed during Sir Alex Ferguson, the Dutch manager at Old Trafford. “It’s hard to take because the game was decided on a mistake, it’s clear. It’s not a question of was where to look at millimeters. It’s half a meter, it’s clear. The team did not deserve to lose the game this way. They fought, played well and dominated the game for a long bit. “

Van Nistelrooy was asked if it was to be used from the third round onwards when possible. “Let me think about that question,” he said.

Van Nistelrooy was Curt when asked if it was a battle to be knocked out. “It’s not a question for me,” he said. “We will die on the field today to get to the next round to be the best we can be to be competitive, we represent ourselves on the field at Old Trafford.”

Ruben Amorim was visibly disappointed with United’s poor performance. “We had to believe until the end, but this game has nothing to do with Fergie’s time,” he said.

After Joshua Zirkzee’s equalizing of 67 minutes, Bobby dewe Cordova-Reid’s first half, Amorim admitted that United were lucky with the winner of Maguire. “I think so,” the Portuguese said. “We need a lot of things, nothing to do with luck, it has to do with the quality of the work, we need to improve every detail of the game, energy.”

His verdict on screen was cursed. “My work with them has to be so much better,” Amorim said. “But sometimes you need some luck, and today we had it. It’s really hard to lose a game at the last minute with an offside game. The performance: We have to do so much better with the ball without the ball.

“We didn’t have any energy in the beginning, especially in the first half. So in the second half we played a little better with a little more speed and won other balls. Then we managed to turn things around, so it was a good result, not a good achievement. “