adminLONDON. — Robin van Persie has said sorry to his Manchester United teammates and claimed he was not criticising them in a post-match interview earlier this week.The Dutch striker complained to a TV station from his homeland about fellow players running into areas where he was supposed to be during the Champions League shocker against Olympiakos.
The Old Trafford giants were poor as they lost the first leg of the Champions League last-16 tie on Tuesday, and must overturn a 2-0 deficit in next month’s return fixture at Old Trafford to reach the quarter-finals and keep their hopes of some silverware this season alive.
Van Persie has since pulled his colleagues aside at training to apologise for his remarks and claimed that he was talking about his own game rather than having a go at them – or their under-fire first-year manager David Moyes.
The comments had caused unrest in the champions’ dressing room, and the 30-year-old was said to be ‘genuinely shocked” that what he said had been made to sound like a self-centred moan. But fellow striker Javier Hernandez had already launched what seemed a thinly-veiled attack on the Dutchman. — The Mirror
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