Wayne Rooney has said that Sunday’s 3-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday was one of the worst days he’d ever had in football.
The 28-year-old was one of few Manchester United players to have emerged from the game with any credit as Liverpool made the home side pay with two penalties from Steven Gerrard and third from Luis Suarez.
Rooney told MUTV: “It’s one of the worst days I’ve ever had in football.
“It’s hard to take. You have to give Liverpool credit – they played well – but it’s difficult to take.
“Nobody wants to lose, especially in this way, in your own stadium. It’s not nice.”
On the match itself, he added: “To go behind by one penalty was hard to take.
“We had a game plan for the second half, which went out the window when they got the second penalty so early on.
“It made it an uphill battle to come back. I thought after that we had a couple of chances where I thought, if we got one, we could have gone for a second and maybe we could have done it.
“I haven’t seen the penalties back again but from where I was standing on the pitch I don’t think we can argue with them.”
Gerrard, on the other hand, believes Liverpool are in with a genuine chance of securing their first title in 24 years.
“I’ve come here many times and been played off the park. They’re a fantastic team,” he told Sky Sports.
“This is one of the most difficult places to come in the Premier League so to come here and dominate from start to finish, we’re still going away slightly disappointed that we never got more goals.
“It’s a fantastic day personally, getting a couple of goals. We came here to win the game.
“I said before the game it’s difficult and we need to just take each game as they come and try and win them all.
“We’ll enjoy tonight. We need to move on very quickly because Cardiff’s going to be tough.
“I think we’ve shown today that we’re genuine contenders and we’re going to fight to the end for this.”
