{"id":664404,"date":"2025-12-31T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:40:13","slug":"lisandro-martinez-makes-surprising-admission-after-manchester-united-draw-vs-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664404\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisandro Martinez makes surprising admission after Manchester United draw vs Wolves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lisandro Martinez reflected on Man Utd&#8217;s 1-1 draw with Wolves in the Premier League on Tuesday.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0_GettyImages-2253329941.jpg\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>Lisandro Martinez reacted to the draw.(Image: 2025 Manchester United FC)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Lisandro Martinez doesn&#8217;t believe Wolves deserve to be bottom of the <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/premier-league\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Premier League<\/a> after <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-united-fc\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Manchester United<\/a> drew 1-1 with them. The result gave Rob Edwards his first point since his appointment at Molineux at the beginning of November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Wolves are on course to go down as the worst team in Premier League history &#8211; Derby recorded just 11 points in 2007\/08 &#8211; but they left Manchester with a result on Tuesday. <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/manchester-united-player-ratings-vs-33143272\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Joshua Zirkzee scored thanks to a heavily deflected strike in the 27th minute<\/a>, however, Wolves drew level on the stroke of half-time following a headed goal from defender Ladislav Krejci.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">That goal was enough to <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/what-ruben-amorim-after-manchester-33143278\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">ensure that the points were shared<\/a>. Martinez spoke to Sky Sports after the final whistle, and he admitted that United cannot fail to win against such opponents at <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/old-trafford\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Old Trafford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Really disappointed,&#8221; said Martinez. &#8220;We can&#8217;t come here at home and draw this game. We have to win when we play at home. The opponent has to suffer and we didn&#8217;t get the three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Very frustrating. The team gave everything. Just for a few moments, we conceded in the last moment of the first half, that can happen. We can deserve that, it&#8217;s our responsibility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We played well with the ball in the first half but then we dropped too much, couldn&#8217;t press their centre backs. They were comfortable with the ball and they started moving around and creating spaces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The defender added that he believes Wolves should not be bottom of the league. &#8220;Wolves don&#8217;t deserve the place they are, it&#8217;s a strong team. We respect them,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to take more risks. The lads are very disappointed, we expect better. We have to take it and go for the next one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">United are sixth in the Premier League, sitting on 30 points after 19 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisandro Martinez reflected on Man Utd&#8217;s 1-1 draw with Wolves in the Premier League on Tuesday.Lisandro Martinez reacted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,393,4884,12236,2465,423,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-664404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-lisandro-martinez","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-united-fc","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115813523443046126","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664404","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=664404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}