Exiled Man Utd star Antony blasts Real Betis team-mates after just second game for club

Antony joined Real Betis connected indebtedness until the extremity of the play successful January and the Manchester United guardant has contributed to 2 goals successful arsenic galore games - but neither resulted successful victories

Manchester United flop Antony saw his 2nd crippled for caller nine Real Betis spell from imagination to nightmare.

Antony, 24, joined Betis until the extremity of the season during the winter transportation window. The Brazilian built connected winning Man of the Match successful his archetypal crippled for the La Liga outfit by scoring his maiden Betis goal conscionable 10 minutes into Saturday's travel to Celta Vigo.

Team-mate Diego Llorente doubled Betis' pb soon after, putting Manuel Pellegrini's broadside connected people for lone their 2nd triumph successful their six games acrss each competitions. But a second-half illness saw Celta crook the crippled astir and triumph 3-2, arsenic Williot Swedberg netted the decisive extremity successful the 87th minute.

Antony, having picked up a yellowish card, was subbed disconnected successful the 72nd minute, returning to the transportation for the full-time handshakes with a look similar thunder. During a post-match interrogation with DAZN, the United's £86million signing made his feelings clear.

"It's precise hard to recognize that we mislaid this match. We started precise well, we went 2-0 up but we person to alteration our mentality," Antony fumed. "We scored 2 goals, but we person to beryllium focused passim the match, the 90 minutes. We person to enactment to beryllium better.

"We person to alteration our mentality. We person to commencement good and decorativeness well. We person to enactment hard, look astatine what we are not doing good successful bid to get the 3 points successful the adjacent game."

Pellegrini echoes his winger's message, saying: "It was a bully archetypal fractional successful which we took the lead. Two goals are a bully advantage, but it was not decided. Unconsciously we took refuge successful the scoreboard, they took the inaugural and scored 2 goals that tied the game. Then we had a frustrating 2nd fractional successful presumption of football.

"The 2nd fractional was not bully defensively. Celta is an violative team, that plays good and looks for the opposing goal. We mislaid power of the shot and we took refuge successful the 0-2."

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Pellegrini volition instrumentality solace successful Antony's awesome commencement to unrecorded successful Seville, with Betis agreeing to wage 84 per cent of the erstwhile Ajax star's £200,000-a-week wages. The ex-Manchester City brag said aft Antony's debut: "Well, I deliberation it was a precise affirmative debut. He's a prime player.

"I was talking to him conscionable earlier the game. I deliberation a bully subordinate doesn't person to beryllium perpetually showing disconnected his skills with the ball. He has to play a bully game, marque fewer mistakes and bash 2 oregon 3 important things: a goal, a bully pass, a bully cross.

"I deliberation helium was precise progressive today, particularly with the 2nd goal. He had conscionable arrived a mates of days earlier and I deliberation he's going to lend a batch to us."

Betis's adjacent lucifer volition beryllium distant to Belgian broadside Gent successful the Conference League play-off round.

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