{"id":421363,"date":"2026-01-18T14:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421363\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T14:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T14:31:15","slug":"lisandro-martinez-hits-back-at-scholes-and-manchester-united-punditocracy-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/421363\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisandro Mart\u00ednez hits back at Scholes and Manchester United punditocracy | Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lisandro Mart\u00ednez has criticised Paul Scholes for mocking him on a podcast but not directly to the Manchester United defender\u2019s face, following Saturday\u2019s 2-0 win over Manchester City<\/a> at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n

Scholes and Nicky Butt, another prominent former United player, were each scathing about the diminutive Mart\u00ednez and his ability to mark Erling Haaland, when speaking on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly before the 198th derby.<\/p>\n

Of Mart\u00ednez, Scholes said. \u201cHaaland\u2019d score then throw him in the net.\u201d Butt added: \u201cHaaland would pick Mart\u00ednez up and run with him. You know when you see a dad at school running down the road with a little toddler.\u201d<\/p>\n

Responding after the derby to Scholes\u2019s comments, Mart\u00ednez said: \u201cNo, honestly, he can say whatever he wants. I told him already, if he wants to say something to me, he can come to wherever he wants. To my house, wherever. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think for me, I respect the relations [former players] when they want to help the club because everyone can talk on the television, but when you see here face to face, no one says anything in your face. So for me, I don\u2019t really care what they say. I just put the focus on my performance, the performance of the team and I give everything to this club until my last day. It doesn\u2019t give me anything. My motivation is my family. That\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scholes later replied on Instagram, saying: \u201cSomeone\u2019s had a good game, was really happy for you… Tea, no sugar pls.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Scholes or Butt are not thought to have been at the derby, both attended last Sunday\u2019s FA Cup loss to Brighton at Old Trafford. United beat City with second-half goals from Bryan Mbeumo and Patrick Dorgu in Michael Carrick\u2019s first game as interim head coach.<\/p>\n

Mart\u00ednez said the 44-year-old was a contrast to Ruben Amorim, who was sacked two weeks ago. \u201cSo different, so different,\u201d he said. \u201cDifferent mentality, different guy. He knows what this club really means. He sent us that message that he played here for a long, long time. He won everything. He is a big legend. He wants to help the club and I think we were in a tough situation and today was the best moment to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 12 years at United, from 2006, Carrick claimed every major honour including five titles and the Champions League. Of Wednesday\u2019s first training session Martinez said: \u201cHe was quiet. He was smiling. He was really confident. And that helps a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you have a coach like Michael Carrick, who really knows, who really can share with you the energy of the club and what it means, it\u2019s so different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lisandro Mart\u00ednez has criticised Paul Scholes for mocking him on a podcast but not directly to the Manchester…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-421363","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}