Eight minutes after Bruno Fernandes’ opener at Goodison Park on Saturday with a curling free kick, the Uruguay midfielder saved a point from United’ generally poor performance.
After Beto and Abdoulaye Doucoure scored first-half goals, United was on course to fall to third straight defeat, which was their ninth defeat in 15 league games since Ruben Amorim took over in November.
Everton was given a penalty in stoppage time in the third minute when Harry Maguire fouled Ashley Young, but the on-field referee changed his initial decision after a video review.
Everton slowed down toward the end of the second half, and United took advantage of it. However, Amorim’s comeback will not mask the significant issues he is facing as he attempts to restore the country’s 15th-placed embarrassing position.
Fernandes admitted to TNT Sports that “we had our chances in the second half, but we started the game too late.” In the first half, we gave it away. We didn’t have enough movement. We were too static. It was difficult to create situations.
The manager was very upset with us because we flouted our season-long plan. to get it to work despite a bad situation.
Amorim was equally as honest in his appraisal:” In this moment, we need to focus on day by day, we need to survive this season – that is clear – and then think ahead. We have so many problems and then when we go to the game, we let the time pass, it’s really hard.
The second half was so much better and the belief that we were on the verge of winning this game, I don’t want to just talk about the negatives.
Everton increased to six league games from the start of David Moyes’ second spell as manager last month.
In February of this year, Ugarte scored for the Portuguese side Famalicao.
Source: Aljazeera
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