EPL: What De Gea said after Man United’s 3-1 defeat to Liverpool

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho has disclosed that goalkeeper, David De Gea was furious with forward, Xherdan Shaqiri’s two deflected goals in Liverpool’s 3-1 victory over Red Devils in the Premier League on Sunday.

Goals from Sadio Mane (1), Xherdan Shaqiri (2) gave Jurgen Klopp’s men all three points against United.

However, Jesse Lingard did score for Mourinho’s men at Anfield.

Mourinho said De Gea was claiming in the dressing room that he would have easily saved both of Shaqiri’s shots if they had not been deflected.

“Liverpool are the strong team, but it’s hard to concede two goals in the moment we conceded and the way the goals happened,” Mourinho told Sky Sports after the match.

“Our difficult moment was the first 20 minutes. We couldn’t cope with their fantastic intensity and pressing, but then we were quite calm and it was controlled.

“They became really frustrated when their centre-backs came forwards and fired shots into the stands – that was the period when it was more in control.

“We felt we could win, even a little bit undeservedly.

“David is saying in the dressing room two easy balls for him, and because of the rebounds [deflections] he had no chance. ‘If you want to speak about fortunate you speak their second and third goals.”

De Gea will hope to lead United to victory when they tackle Cardiff City in their next Premier League fixture on Saturday.