Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer condemned racist tweets sent to Marcus Rashford after the England forward missed a penalty in Saturday’s shock 2-1 home defeat to Crystal Palace.
The abuse of Rashford came after United midfielder Paul Pogba was also subjected to racist taunts on social media following his failure to score a penalty in Monday’s 1-1 draw at Wolves.
Pogba had taken penalties duties from Rashford, who resumed the job against Palace, only to miss from the spot for the first time in his career.
“My response is the same as before the weekend,” said Solskajer, when informed of what had happened to Rashford.
“I am lost for words if it keeps going. We keep having all these campaigns, saying no to racism, but these people keep hiding behind fake identities. It is crazy that we keep talking about this in 2019.”
The racist incidents provided a nasty conclusion to a bad afternoon for United as they lost their unbeaten start to the season thanks to a stoppage-time winner from Patrick van Aanholt, which delivered a first league success over United for 28 years for the Eagles.
For Solskjaer, there was only frustration as United now have just one win from their first three games, a record that falls short of the Norwegian’s expectations.
“We have to learn and we have to learn quickly. The last two games we should have taken six points from them if you had been watching as a neutral,” he said.
“Of course, we are two penalty misses away from sitting here smiling.
“After half an hour of no danger, one long kick and we didn’t narrow down. Then for the last goal, after having all that pressure in the second half and David (de Gea) had not touched the ball, they scored again.”
