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Fernandes: Man Utd players must take responsibility for Man City thumping

Manchester United midfielder Bruno Fernandes says there's many lessons to come out of Sunday's 6-3 defeat at Manchester City.

Fernandes was speaking at today's Europa League presser for their clash with Omonia.

He said, "We don't focus on anyone else. We focus on ourselves. That has been a problem for the club in previous years that we want to compare ourselves with other teams, but we can't do that.

"We have to look at ourselves and look at the problems and what we can improve.

"We can't think about Arsenal, Liverpool or other teams. We just have to win every game that is in our hands.

"We saw our mistakes in that defeat [at Manchester Cityt] and we have to make sure we don't do them again. It was a bad game, we conceded six goals, but we have to get ourselves back on the winning track."

Fernandes also said: "It was not good enough for the standards we set ourselves and what we want to achieve this season. All together we didn't do enough to win the game and we all are disappointed with the result.

"The responsibility is playing for this massive club and everyone has to feel that responsibility, it doesn't matter who has the armband on the pitch.

"There is still a long way to go but we know what we want to achieve. We know what the manager wants from us as a team but we've got to get back to good results and we have a chance to do that straight away tomorrow."

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