Despite another gutsy performance, Ademola Lookman was left downbeat after Fulham failed to take any points from their meeting with Manchester United.
After Lookman had fired his side into an early lead, the visitors responded through a soft Edinson Cavani equaliser, and a Paul Pogba wonderstrike.
“I’m just disappointed really, especially having taken the lead,” he told fulhamfc.com. “The goals we conceded, we could do a lot better on those.
“We know that as players, so we need to rectify those mistakes.”
United went top of the table with the win, so can the Whites take positives from the fact that there was virtually nothing between the sides throughout the 90 minutes?
“Most definitely,” Lookman said. “We still feel we can raise our performance, raise the bar, keep on raising the levels, and we’ll look to do that.
“This is the Premier League, every single game is hard. Everybody knows that and I feel like if we can just keep on applying what we do every single day in training and work on the little details, I think we’ll be good.”
The 23-year-old’s sharp finish had given Fulham the perfect start, but he wasn’t keen to accept personal praise for what ultimately turned out to be a consolation goal: “We didn’t get the three points. To me, the three points is more important than my goal.”
After going toe-to-toe with Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and United in our last three outings, we now do battle with those closer to us in the standings.
After hosting Burnley in the Emirates FA Cup on Sunday, we go into a huge week where we travel to both Brighton and West Brom.
“We know how important those two games are, but also the next game against Burnley in the cup,” Lookman stated.
“Every single game is important for us, it’s another opportunity to perform, another opportunity to show people that we’re still fighting, that we want to do well as a team, do well individually.
“We’re coming off the back of a loss against Manchester United but we’ve got to keep on doing our jobs, keep on working hard as we look to get those wins.”
