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Manchester United had a night to forget Wednesday night in Turkey.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s team was looking to add three wins out of three in their group after beating Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig.
But Istanbul Basaksehir took advantage of a woeful defense to emerge with a 2-1 victory and leave Group H wide open.
Demba Ba opened the scoring in 13 minutes thanks to the worst defense you will see in the Champions League.
United took a corner kick and left Nemanja Matic behind to defend against Ba. But Matic completely lost track of the former Premier League striker and a long way later, Ba scored Dean Henderson’s goal, finishing coolly.
Before the break, the score was 2-0 when Juan Mata lost possession, United’s defense was everywhere and Edin Visca crashed the ball to make it 2-0.
Anthony Martial pushed back a goal minutes later, but the Red Devils didn’t do enough to force a tie in the second half.
While the defense was terrible, so were some of the passing.
And one player was more guilty than all the others: Bruno Fernandes.
At the final whistle, a statistic emerged that the Portuguese midfielder had given away the ball 34 times during the 90 minutes. That’s more than once every three minutes! It almost seems impossible.
However, a video of Fernandes’ performance has emerged and you soon realize that it actually happened.
Over and over again, Fernandes had the ball and tried to play balls against Martial and Marcus Rashford.
Yes, he deserves credit for trying to make things happen, but his execution was terrible.
Have a look:
After the game, Fernandes admitted that United’s confidence has suffered in recent weeks.
“After two losses it’s hard to think or say anything about this,” Fernandes told MUTV.
“But we have to look at a week ago everyone said that we were doing well and that we were doing incredible games, we beat Newcastle, we beat PSG, we beat Leipzig and we drew Chelsea, but the points we have in the league are not the points we have to wish for. .
“Today it was important to win to be comfortable on the table. But now it’s the same, we have to go to each game to try to win and now it will not be different in the Champions League, we are in a good position. In the league we are not in a good position, we have to do much better and we have to do something in the next game. “
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