‘Beyond embarrassing’ – Former Chelsea star slams two Man Utd players | Football

Ex-Chelsea midfielder Craig Burley slammed ’embarrassing’ Bruno Fernandes after Manchester United’s draw with Fulham.

Ruben Amorim’s side could only draw with Fulham at Craven Cottage on Sunday as Emile Smith Rowe earned the hosts some extent after Rodrigo Muniz’s own goal.

Fernandes missed a penalty in the primary half, sending his spot-kick way over Bernd Leno’s bar after Mason Mount was dragged down within the box.

After the 1-1 draw, Fernandes complained about an incident shortly before he took his penalty during which referee Chris Kavanagh inadvertently bumped into him.

Fernandes scorned Kavanagh after the minor incident after which had words with the referee firstly of the second half.

‘I used to be upset,’ United’s captain said. ‘As a penalty-taker, you have got your personal routines, your personal things that you simply do.

‘It upset me since the referee didn’t apologise. That’s what triggered me in that moment, but that’s not the excuse for missing the penalty.

‘I had a really bad hit on the ball. I put my foot too under the ball and that’s why it ended up going over the bar.’

But Burley felt Fernandes’ response was ‘beyond embarrassing’, telling ESPN: ‘I would like to speak concerning the captain.

‘What a wingy, whiny, little moaning pain within the butt. What a humiliation, what a humiliation to an expert footballer.

‘The referee inadvertently nudged him as he was backing off the penalty and he made out the referee has mainly run into him. What a giant kid.

‘Any player value his salt would have laughed that off and brought the penalty and yet he whined and moaned and cried, as he does, about something so innocuous.

‘It was embarrassing. Loads of his profession at United has been good but there’s been a sideshow as well and that encapsulated it for me.

‘I assumed it was embarrassing beyond belief. How does that put you off your routine? He made such a song and dance about it that it became the story.

‘I assumed it was beyond embarrassing, it was childish, school playground stuff. It beggars belief, it really does.’

Ex-Scotland star Burley also criticised Manchester United goalkeeper Altay Bayindir after the stalemate in west London.

Bayindir – chosen ahead of Andre Onana, who was Amorim’s No. 1 last season – made a few decent saves against Fulham but once more look vulnerable from set-pieces.

‘Absolutely the glaring issue that I shouldn’t must tell anybody is the keeper,’ Burley added.

‘Have you ever ever seen an elite level goalkeeper at this level look as if he’s frightened to death at any time when a ball is swung in?

‘He was absolutely everywhere. You’re not going to place in a consistent run of results along with a goalkeeper like that because teams are going to use it.

‘You can’t proceed with a goalkeeper who’s so horrendous with crosses that it’s scary.’

The draw with Fulham means Manchester United have one point after their first two games of the brand new season.

Assessing his team’s performance at Craven Cottage, Amorim said: ‘For those who look originally of the sport, the draw is so disappointing but at the tip they were in the very best momentum when the sport finished.

‘We were team until our goal but then we forgot about our ideas because we desired to win the football game so badly.’

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