Marco Silva makes bold claim after Fulham stun Man Utd with late winner

Fulham snatched a dramatic stoppage-time win at Manchester United on Saturday with Alex Iwobi striking in the 97th minute to claim a stunning 2-1 Premier League success

Fulham boss Marco Silva was over the moon with his team's last-minute victory against Manchester United. Alex Iwobi scored the winning goal in extra time, leading the London-based team to a 2-1 triumph at Old Trafford.

It was Fulham's first win on United's turf since 2003. After observing Fulham dominate most of the match and take the lead with a 65th minute goal, Silva believed that victory was well-deserved.

With no hesitation, Silva shared: "Definitely, it is clear in my opinion the better team on the pitch won the game. We are the team that created the most chances, that played better and tried to win most of the moments of the game.

"We created a very good number of chances in the first half. They had two or three very good moments as well but the way we started the second half, the first 30 minutes, the way we controlled the game against Man Utd at Old Trafford, that is not easy to do.

"We scored and after came the normal reaction from Man Utd, the crowd played a big part in their reaction, and we conceded a bit of an unlucky goal."

Silva took pride in how Fulham responded once they conceded, saying: "In that moment we showed a strong mentality. It was first a moment for us not to concede the second as Old Trafford was on fire but we showed a strong mentality and even before the 2-1 we had a strong chance from Rodri (Muniz)."

"It was a really well-deserved three points and the best team won."

Fulham's win has put a bit of a damper on the excitement at Old Trafford after Sir Jim Ratcliffe bought part of the club. United have now lost 10 times in the Premier League this season, and their run of four wins has come to an end. This loss hurts their chances of getting into the top four.

But United's boss Erik Ten Hag isn't too worried about the impact on their Champions League dreams. He's looking at the bigger picture.

"After these two months I can't go with that approach. We have gone lately very good but now we have some setbacks.

"Today we could have won this game. We should have won this game as the team showed great character.

"We had two slow starts in both halves, definitely. It was a big loss to lose Casemiro (to injury), we lost some stability in the team and conceded a goal that is very avoidable, but then fought back in the game.

"I have to credit the team they showed great character. We went for the win but by the end we let them slip away.

"But after one defeat you have to see the bigger picture and the bigger picture looks very good.

"We have to catch up in certain positions and get the injuries back, then we will be more in balance and also strengthen the squad in the transfer windows.

"You see there are many good players coming up and real high potential players, so definitely we are going in the right direction. When we have the players available, we have a very good team.