“I think if Manchester United’s Under-23s played against Crystal Palace tonight, they still wouldn’t have lost 4-0 tonight.”
Carragher on Casemiro:
“I know he’s got kids on the bench but I think Casemiro, deadly serious, should know himself tonight as an experienced player that he should only have another three games left at the top level. The next two league games and the [FA] cup final.
“And he should be thinking “I need to go to the MLS or Saudi”. I’m deadly serious. He’s aging, the people around him they need to tell him this has to stop.
“We are watching one of the greats of the modern time playing in one of the best midfields we’ve seen who dominated Europe.
“But I always remember something when I retired myself, there was a saying I always remember as a footballer, “leave the football before the football leaves you.”
Ashley Young on Palace’s first goal:
“You look at the first goal, it’s crazy the way they’re set up. Palace have got a throw-in in their own half.
“It’s just one run from Olise. He sees the space and just runs into it. It’s shambolic, Casemiro I don’t know what he’s thinking, Olise sees he’s going to make a challenge, he just walks past him, it’s so easy.”
Christian Eriksen after full-time:
“A big disappointment. We just had an off-day and we weren’t in it.
“It is what it is. We can’t really change the injury things. We have to do what we can on the pitch to change it. Today it didn’t matter who we played. Everyone could have done better.
“I don’t know what the conclusion is for how it went. We weren’t good enough.
“We tried to do what we could but we were not good enough. We’ll take the blame as players.”
Olivia Martin is a dedicated sports journalist based in the UK. With a passion for various athletic disciplines, she covers everything from major league championships to local sports events, delivering up-to-the-minute updates and in-depth analysis.
