It’s not easy to reach a competition final only to admit the other team was better. But Manchester United skipper Bruno Fernandes credited his Manchester City counterpart Ilkay Gundogan.🚨🎙️| Bruno Fernandes: “We will come back next season and try to win bigger trophies.” pic.twitter.com/5poO6u09pP— centredevils. (@centredevils) June 3, 2023 Fernandes, who led the players up the stairs as captain to collect their consolation medals after the defeat, reflected on the performance and said the dressing room were devasted for not giving the club’s fans what they wanted.”Everyone is down. It’s really difficult. We wanted to end the season differently. It wasn’t possible, but we’re aware we’ve made the right steps for the future next season. It’s not a successful season overall but it’s good. We started in a really bad way and in the first half, we had some really good spells on the ball. After we scored, we had some more chances where we could have scored again. In the second half again, we concede an early goal, an amazing goal by Gundogan. We still had some chances to score, but we didn’t and City were good winners.” Treble loading: 66.67%German international Gundogan opened the scoring within the first minute of the contest. Although Fernandes was able to produce an equaliser when calmly converting a penalty, City’s lead was restored shortly after the second half had begun.”The first goal was probably too soft, too much space in the middle, yes, but it was an amazing goal. Obviously, if someone was tighter on him it might have been prevented. But you have to give credit to him. It’s two amazing goals with his left foot by an amazing player. I’ve said in the past he’s one of the best midfielders in the Premier League and he’s won the game for City today.”
