{"id":605158,"date":"2025-12-01T11:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605158\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:23:16","slug":"mccoist-claims-naive-red-devils-star-did-something-you-cant-do-in-crystal-palace-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605158\/","title":{"rendered":"McCoist claims &#8216;naive&#8217; Red Devils star did something you &#8216;can&#8217;t&#8217; do in Crystal Palace win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ally McCoist has explained why he thinks a Manchester United star did something that you \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d do during his side\u2019s 2-1 win against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n<p>There was pressure on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/manchester-united\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Utd<\/strong><\/a> to return to winning ways on Sunday afternoon after they slumped to a disappointing 1-0 loss against 10-man Everton at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>For a while, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/ruben-amorim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ruben Amorim<\/strong>\u2018<\/a>s side looked on course for another defeat as Leny Yoro gifted Palace a penalty, which was converted by Jean-Philippe Mateta.<\/p>\n<p>However, Man Utd improved after the break and scored two quickfire goals to turn the game around as Joshua Zirkzee and Mason Mount found the net.<\/p>\n<p>Palace were far from their best as they could not bounce back and were beaten 2-1, with this result meaning the Red Devils have only lost one of their last seven games in the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-amorim-man-utd-arsenal-path-premier-league-dominance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Has Amorim got Man Utd on the Arsenal path to Premier League dominance?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>United\u2019s win lifts them back into the top half of the Premier League table<\/strong><\/a>, though they have not been without their critics and journalist William Bitibiri claims Yoro \u201clooked off it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoro has looked off it all afternoon,\u201d\u00a0Bitibiri said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a definite spot-kick. Clumsy stuff from him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the penalty incident, co-commentator Ally McCoist claimed Yoro was \u201cnaive\u201d after Adam Wharton produced a \u201ctremendous pass\u201d to open up Man Utd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat a ball from Adam Wharton and it\u2019s not the first time either,\u201d McCoist said on TNT Sports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s one of the best midfielders at playing a first-time pass forward, he really is. It\u2019s just brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tackle is naive but it\u2019s brilliant from Wharton. If you\u2019re a forward and you know the ball is going to get fired in, he just plays it, it\u2019s a tremendous pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE MAN UTD COVERAGE ON F365\u2026<br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-amour-authority-man-utd-crystal-palace-brutal-put-down-social-media-mockery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amorim stamps authority for Man Utd vs Crystal Palace after brutal put-down follows social media mockery<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\/table-v-top-half\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Utd top of one significant Premier League table this season<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-mainoo-says-yes-transfer-romano-confirms-first-2026-transfer-sealed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Utd: Mainoo \u2018says yes\u2019 to transfer as Romano confirms \u2018deal sealed\u2019 for first 2026 signing<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>McCoist added: \u201cIt\u2019s just naive defending. You\u2019ve got to let him go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t make that challenge there! You can\u2019t do it. He\u2019s going on to De Ligt, you must let him go and try and get back in goal-side maybe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes he slip? He might slip but there\u2019s no need at all to make that challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At half-time, pundits Joe Cole and Peter Crouch also commented on Yoro, who was \u201creally clumsy\u201d and got \u201cpunished\u201d for his error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just so clumsy,\u201d Cole said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got the wrong side of him. You\u2019ve got to sort your feet out, he\u2019s tripped over his own feet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really clumsy and he needs to learn that, in the Premier League, you\u2019ll get punished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Crouch added: \u201cIt\u2019s so frustrating from Yoro.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ally McCoist has explained why he thinks a Manchester United star did something that you \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d do during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[12631,94,225,176,98,12,101,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-605158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-ally-mccoist","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-home-page","11":"tag-leny-yoro","12":"tag-manchester-united","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-premier-league","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115644059439444982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}