RB Leipzig 3-2 Manchester United: Champions League, how it happened | Football

“We started too late. Great spirit and I’m back again, but it’s different from the Premier League … you can’t give a goal a three-goal lead and expect it to come back. I thought character and effort were there in the end.

You can’t say we were good enough. We were not good enough. We were in a difficult group and we started well and obviously the big turning point was the defeat in Istanbul. That’s where we lost points that we should have gotten … Today we had to defend crosses into the box and we just didn’t take care of them.

We can feel sorry for ourselves tonight, but then we have to focus on the game against Manchester City this weekend.

“We started the game too slow. It wasn’t enough for the first 20 minutes. We didn’t and they scored the two chances they had. They put two balls in the box and we couldn’t deal with them. In the second half they scored with their first attack, from another center. So we only blame ourselves … We cannot keep giving away goals and falling behind.

I don’t want to look for excuses. As a player, there are 11 bodies on the court, you have to go out and win balls, make crosses, etc. the basics of soccer. It’s not about the form. “

Stay tuned for all of Leipzig’s reaction, including, no doubt, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s response to the inevitable questions about his job security.

Manchester United have been eliminated from the Champions League. This time they couldn’t complete the comeback. They have been punished for a sluggish start in this critical game, being outmatched for long periods, and relapsed into negligence to concede a third. Their grinding and churning towards the end came too late to save them.

90 + 3 min: Pogba curls over a beautiful cross from the right. Mukiele reaches out to cut him at the near post but deflects it towards his own goal … goalkeeper! What a save from Gulacsi! Was that the last United battle?

90 + 2 min: Maguire is now playing as an auxiliary forward, lumbering up front in hopes of reaching the end of one of the balls United are throwing into the box.

89 min: Quick pass by United to work the ball to Rashford in the let. Cut inside, ignore teammates in the area and try to hit the goalie from a difficult angle. Gulacsi explodes that dream.

88 min: Rashford receives a diagonal pass near the left corner of the area. He hands it back to McTominay, who waves it over the bar.

87 min: A blind pass from Pogba gives Leipzig possession, but they do not benefit. straying offside in your excess of anxiety.

85 min: Leipzig tries to keep the ball on the ground near United’s corner flag but cannot hold it …

What a Pogba jump! He shot into the back post to meet a corner from Fernandes and his downward header hit Maguire on the way to the net. Leipzig insists it hurt him, but the VAR review states otherwise. That comeback is on!

81 min: In all the excitement, I forgot to mention that Tuanzebe has come instead of Lindelof. Thanks for your understanding.

With his usual leap, jump and jump, Fernandes sends the goalkeeper down the wrong path and into the far corner. The beginning of an unforgettable return?

Greenwood and Konaté go shoulder to shoulder in the area and the smaller man falls. That is not a justification for a spotkick, but the referee disagrees.

76 min: Fernández snuggles a swinger from the left. Rashford tries to put small eyebrows at him, but the ball bounces harmlessly and hits the goalkeeper.

74 min: Fernandes unloads a respectable shot from long range. Gulacsi plays it on the bar.

72 min: Rashford passes in front of two players before Haidara wins the ball with an excellent sliding tackle. But United quickly gets it back and works with Greenwood, who tries to torpedo a shot into the far corner from 12 yards. The goalkeeper ducks down well to save.

71 min: Gulacsi throws McTominay shot around the post for a corner, then hits said corner to safety.

Dithering in United’s defense is punished by Kluivert! As Maguire and De Gea wondered who would see to it that a ball rolled through the six-yard area, Kluivert stepped in and defeated the goalkeeper with a nifty dink.

67 min: United free kick near the left corner to the left of Leipzig D. Fernandes throws a beauty over the wall … and against the crossbar!

66 min: Fernandes throws a sinking shot that deflects from more than 25 yards. The archer lunges to his left to push him back, although he may have been going to the side. “At the risk of launching an incendiary sentiment at this MBM, isn’t having a disappointing ‘star’ player as much a part of the modern-era United DNA as anything else?” chips at Grant Tennille. “Veron, Forlan, Di Maria, Schweinsteiger … Are you sure you can fill in some holes in my memory?”

64 min: Pogba throws a good pass to Fernandes, who sweeps it beautifully towards Greenwood, but Orban intervenes with an impeccably timed tackle.

62 min: Nkunku twists and turns inside United’s area and shoots a shot from the left. Lindelof blocks it. Then Kluivert is booked for trying to push Fernandes back.

United substitutions: Can Pogba be United’s hero? It goes for Shaw. And Williams has replaced Matic.

60 min: Shaw’s free throw from the let fails to beat the first man. United’s relationship between junk and good spare parts deliveries sinks even further.

Substitutions in Leipzig: Kluivert and Poulsen, Olmo and Forsberg, out.

55 min: Fernández sends a beautiful free kick from the right that bounces off the goal. Maguire struggles to get his head on the back post, but misses just past him! That’s United’s best game installment all night.

55 min: Fernande with a corner kick from the right. Nkunu directs him towards the nearby post.

54 min: United’s threat is growing. They look much sharper, pass faster, and run with more ambition.

52 min: Rashford zigzags from the left, works his way to the edge of the area, and then feeds it wide. But the cross is cut off.

50 min: United force a couple of corners but are well defended.

49 min: Good move by United. A few small one-touch passes into the opposite half, with Van de Beek continually making the kind of proactive runs past the last few defenders missing in the first period.

47 min: Van de Beek’s first touch was to give the ball away. Leipzig have started more brilliantly, although not to the same extent as they did in the first half.

46 min: Van de Beek is in place of Telles. Presumably that means United will switch to four behind.

“Don’t you forget that United could happen if Basaksekir wins in Paris?” shouts Gordon Dempsey. That wouldn’t make any difference for United, Gordon, because PSG have a better record in head-to-head play between the two.

“Ole has Leipzig exactly where he wants them!” screeches Peter Oh.

Time to enact Plan B, Ole. United seemed puzzled in the first half hour of this game and were met with two goals before getting a glimpse of what their opponents were up to. In fact, they came very close to falling three goals behind. They improved in the last 15 minutes and worked in threatening positions. But they need to be much sharper and more agile to mount a comeback here. Otherwise, your Champions League campaign is over … unless something scandalous happens in the other game.

45 min: There will be at least two more minutes before the break …

43 min: Leipzig break after United pressure streak. Shaw takes out an attacker midway and makes a reserve. The referee then approaches United’s dugout to administer a stern reprimand to all who objected to his decision.