Ole Gunnar Solskjaer admits Manchester United need to fix their flimsy set-piece defending after they conceded from a Burnley free-kick in their lacklustre 2-0 defeat.
Ashley Westwood launched a free-kick from the centre circle into United's area that was headed on by Ben Mee and instinctively finished by Chris Wood to put the Clarets 1-0 up on 39 minutes. United conceded from corners against Liverpool and Arsenal this month, as well as Everton and Aston Villa in December.
Mee outjumped Nemanja Matic to win the first duel and United captain Harry Maguire failed to track the predatory Wood for the second ball. "That's disappointing, definitely," Solskjaer said. "And it needs fixing and that's on the pitch, on the training ground. It has to be done and football nowadays, 30 or 40 per cent is probably set-plays, a few counter-attacks, maybe 30 per cent and open, like longer attacks, 30 per cent.
"So it's not that uncommon that you concede but it is disappointing. Especially against Burnley. We know that's one of their strengths; it's going to go back stick, it's going to be headed in and we didn't defend that well enough and we know that.
"The first challenge should have been dealt with, the second one should have been dealt with as well. The second goal [by Jay Rodriguez] is a wonder strike, you've got to say that to the kid, that's a wonder goal."
Burnley manager Sean Dyche refused to say whether Burnley had specifically targeted United's set-piece frailties. "It's certainly not for me to start questioning others, I tend to not do that we focus on ourselves.
"We want good delivery, quite obviously, going into the box. We have dangerous players we feel who have an eye to attack the ball with a real body language and a purpose that can create trouble and score goals.
"And we've shown that year on year."
