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Man Utd defender Lindelof: We didn't capitalise on nervous Man City

Victor Lindelof says Manchester United could not capitalise on Manchester City's nervousness in yesterday's derby.

An Anthony Martial penalty in the second half brought the scores to 2-1 and could have possibly changed the momentum in United's favour.

However, City quickly took control of the game once again and eventually sealed victory through Ilkay Gundogan.

Lindelof told MUTV: "After that goal [from Martial] they were quite nervous and it felt like we could have scored another goal, but they scored a third goal instead, so it happens in football, but we are very, very disappointed, because we felt that we could have scored a second goal and got a better result.

"We had quite a lot of possession, but we didn't really come in behind their defensive line into their last third of the pitch. But we tried and, like I said, it felt like we could've hurt them more.

"I think we started the game, the first 15 minutes, quite badly.

"They had a lot of possession and we didn't do so much, but after their goal we started to play a little bit and we made it harder for them.

"After we scored after our goal we could have been a bit more aggressive and tried a little bit more but we lost and we're sad about that."

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