Fulham's Aina Names The Defender In The Manchester United Backline He Wants To Emulate

Fulham have made massive progress defensively in the last two months after switching to a back three.

Ahead of their next Premier League meeting against Manchester United at Craven Cottage, Scott Parker's side are not lacking confidence, beating Leicester City, holding Liverpool, Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur to draws, and they were close to getting a point in their last fixture vs Chelsea, only for Mason Mount to score a winner twelve minutes from time.

Predominantly a right-back, Aina has been deployed as the right-sided central defender after the formation was tweaked.

The Nigeria international has named England star Harry Maguire as the defender in the Manchester United side he wants to emulate in his game.

"You could learn from everyone you know, I am not the type of person where I feel like I am the finished model or I'm better than someone," Aina told Fulham's YouTube page.

"I feel like I can always learn off people. Harry Maguire, he's a top professional and he's an England senior player, he's really a good defender.

"You can learn from everyone across the league and he's one of them".

The Torino loanee added : "It's sort of a little dream come true for me back in the Premier League just playing and in London as well.

"Across the Premier League there's a lot of good defenders, obviously you've got Virgil van Dijk there as well and there are some good youngsters as well, some that are younger than me, you could still learn off them as well."

In terms of the Premier League table, Fulham are eighteenth with 12 points accumulated after seventeen games before tomorrow's game with Manchester United.

Ifeanyi Emmanuel