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“You’ve got to know your story. I just put on things that I would have loved when I was a player. They’re not the most complicated drills, but simple ones strikers face in the game seven out of ten times.<\/p>\n
“The more consistent you become, the easier it becomes in the game. We just created that culture where the finishing drills were about competitiveness, repetition and making the goalkeeper work.”<\/p>\n
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Read more… <\/strong> McCarthy went on to explain that testing the keeper is particularly important when coming up against a side with someone less dependable behind the back-four, with Leeds mentioned specifically.<\/p>\n “Our goalkeepers are some of the best in the league, but when you play against a Nottingham Forest or a Leeds United, their goalkeepers maybe aren’t of the same quality that we have,” he said.<\/p>\n At the time of McCarthy’s dig earlier this year, David de Gea was still United’s starting goalkeeper, and the Spaniard went on to win the Premier League Golden Glove at the end of the season.<\/p>\n With De Gea’s future hanging in the balance as he approached the end of his United contract, McCarthy threw his weight behind the Spaniard by calling him an ‘unbelievable’ character and asserting that it would be a ‘crime’ to move him on.<\/p>\n Ten Hag didn’t listen, as De Gea was ultimately allowed to leave Old Trafford as a free agent. Big money was subsequently spent on new goalkeeper Andre Onana, who has publicly taken responsibility for his shaky start with the Red Devils.<\/p>\n
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