Sunday Mirror

Ole slams fixtures shambles

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UPSET, FOR SHAW Gutted Luke Shaw walks off injured you expect players to perform to the best of their ability when you set us up with a lunchtime kick-off? It’s an absolute joke.

“We tried a month ago to have this game moved.

“What sense is there for us playing on a Saturday when we could have played on a Sunday with an internatio­nal break to follow.

“You’ve got Liverpool and City, who both played Tuesday, playing against each other on Sunday.

“Who is responsibl­e?

I’ve had enough. Those boys deserve better than being thrown out here to fail today.

“How can you defend the quality of the product with things like this?

“At a time like this we shouldn’t be harming players we should be looking after them.

“Luke Shaw has a hamstring injury, which might be a long one because of it all, and Marcus Rashford and Victor Lindelof might be struggling.

“It’s an absolute shambles, but I can’t praise the boys enough for that character they’ve shown – not just from coming from behind to win, but their performanc­e.”

Solskjaer singled out star man Fernandes, who scored twice before half-time after Brazilian winger Bernard had given Everton an early lead.

Fernandes then set up new signing Edinson

Cavani to seal victory in the closing seconds.

Solskjaer added: “He scored two fantastic goals and set up Cavani at the end – it was a fabulous performanc­e. But they were all great.”

Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti was angry with his side’s defending as they slipped to a third straight defeat.

He said: “It was not a good performanc­e defensivel­y. After we scored the goal we didn’t defend properly, and gave them chances to score two easy goals. That’s the reason we lost.”

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