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Topics: Lisandro Martinez, Manchester United, Adama Traore, Football, Fulham, Fan Reactions
Marcus Chan
Topics: Lisandro Martinez, Manchester United, Adama Traore, Football, Fulham, Fan Reactions
Lisandro Martinez has been slammed by fans for what he did during Manchester United's match against Fulham.
On Sunday night, Ruben Amorim's men travelled to Craven Cottage looking to get back to winning ways in the Premier League against Fulham.
During what was a poor game of football, Martinez's deflected goal in the 78th minute proved to be the difference as United came away 1-0 winners.
As a result, the Red Devils climbed to 12th place in the Premier League table.
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Despite scoring the winner, Martinez was heavily criticised for an attempted tackle on Fulham winger Adama Traore.
The Argentine appeared to jump two-footed into a challenge while Traore was dribbling towards the United box. Luckily for the defender, he didn't make full contact with the Fulham winger as it could've easily been a red card.
Reacting on social media, one fan said: "He’s a disgrace. Every week he does something like that."
Another tweeted: "He’s such a dirty thug and a worse footballer."
A third added: "This is the second time this season Lisandro Martinez did that awful two-legged jump, and VAR and the refs just ignored it!"
Someone else wrote: "He's gotten away with 2 of those now."
A fifth commented: "Red card every day of the week."
An Arsenal added: "Come on @ pgmol tell me that MLS’s tackle is a red and this isn’t even a yellow. Make it make sense for me please."
Speaking after the match, Amorim said: "Really important. To have this feeling away from home and great support from our away fans as always. Not a great game, you can feel it, there were no great chances in the end with the long balls.
"We tried to control the game, tried to play our game, but we need to improve a lot and you can feel it. This time we hold the result and in one goal we closed the game. It’s really important to win now."