Fulham Head Coach Marco Silva felt Friday evening's match at Old Trafford was a tight battle and that his team could have come away with more.
"Tough game, as we expected, it is always tough to play here, and a good battle. I think both teams, they played clearly to win the game. I think we started really well and we started some good counter attacks, we were able to beat the pressure from Man United from the first minute until, I think, halfway into the first half.
I think we did really well, we started on the front foot and then there was a very good reaction after from Man United, they pushed us back, and we were not able to play in the way we like and with the composure on the ball that normally we have.
"There were no big chances for them, apart from one moment that we lost the ball in our build up, and they had a big chance. The last 20 minutes of the first half, it was more Man United, the opposite to our first first minutes that were really good.
We adjusted some things at half-time and the second half was different. We were able to defend a bit higher, not around our box like the last 20 minutes of the first half, and we were a bit more aggressive too.
I think we did control the game better in the second half.
"There were chances for Man United, we had some moments too, two against one, with Andreas Pereira and Alex (Iwobi) against Maguire that we should have done much better.
Four against two, three against two, so many counter attacks that with better decision, we have to create clear chances in that moment.
In the last 10 to 15, minutes, the game went in the direction that we knew and the players, they were aware that you cannot let the game go in the emotional part.
We know that is the part of the game where Man United are normal and they can punish, because the game is completely broken. If you keep your organisation and you are well organised, it is much more difficult for them.
"When I see our players with some free kicks, trying to rush all the decisions, even with the players on the grass trying to do it quick, we should have much more balance in decisions, to have longer moments in possession, because the pressure from Man United in that moment was not there any more.
We should have longer possession to create the moments, but we started to lose the ball too quick. There were counter attacks for Man United, counter attacks for us, and the game can go either way. And then the last minute, they score in one moment that the game was completely broken."