Jermaine Beckford was critical of Robin Koch and Illan Meslier for their contributions to Manchester United’s goals

Leeds United and Manchester United battled to a 2-2 draw on Wednesday night at Old Trafford, and Jermaine Beckford was critical of Robin Koch and Illan Meslier for their contributions to Manchester United’s goals.

Koch’s body posture and lack of awareness allowed Marcus Rashford to score the first goal for Manchester United, which the former Leeds striker saw as costly.

While telling Premier League Productions that Meslier should have “done better” to prevent Jadon Sancho’s equalizer.

After losing coach Jesse Marsch, the Yorkshire club got off to a blazing start, with Willy Gnonto scoring only two minutes into the game and Leeds continuing their strong play shortly after the intermission.

Rashford and Sancho, the home team’s dynamic combo up front, responded with a flurry of shots. The loss of a two-goal lead will leave Leeds fuming, and Beckford agrees that the Whites should have been able to prevent the first goal.

“Marcus Rashford isn’t like a Weghorst type of player, who is really big and physical in the air and you are going to anticipate that he’s going to cause you all sorts of issues,” said Beckford.

“He’s got a free run at jumping over the defender. I think it’s Robin Koch there. Just open your body up as a defender. Have a look over your shoulder and where is he? Okay, the ball is coming in. I know, if I was a forward, then I need to be on the front foot – as it ended up, it was a standing jump. It’s poor defending, from my perspective. It’s one moment. We have seen that many times, with many different goalkeepers with lots of different teams. It is frustrating, especially because of the situation Leeds were in, at the time being 2-1 up. However, sometimes when you are blind-sided, it takes you a little bit longer to react to get the ball away. Unfortunately, for Leeds United, he was blind-sided a little bit. But I still think he should have done a bit better,” he added.

Leeds’ performances since the World Cup have been excellent. They’ve done all well thus far. Their defense is failing them because they aren’t effective at getting the job done, crossing the threshold, being innovative, or being unrelenting.

The Whites are no closer to hiring Marsch’s successor, but whomever takes over in the dugout must figure out how to get his team to score more goals.