Man United: Don’t let the PSG defeat let take credit away from Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
The poor showing from Alexis Sanchez and referee Daniele Orsato’s tendency to keep nagging away at giving yellow cards didn’t help.
The frustration piled on before Paul Pogba’s sending off which was followed by Luke Shaw coming up with a cynical challenge of his own. That clearly showed what had gone wrong in the game.
In contrast, PSG did a professional job. They went about managing the game to perfection. Weighing the opposition up in the first half before scoring through the chances they had in the second.
They closed out the threat of Paul Pogba by having the brilliant Marquinhos man-mark him, as it was stated so correctly by Arsene Wenger. They didn’t commit many men forward after the first goal and looked threatening on the break. United seemed scared to commit numbers forward themselves, as they feared to concede on the counter.
"We've not played games at this level for a while. We have to learn from this experience, it's not going to be a season-defining one."
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"Mountains are there to be climbed..."
Ole Gunnar Solskjær reacts to his first defeat as Man Utd boss.
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Perhaps, the same game next season under the same manager could have yielded a different result. PSG just seemed the more confident side made for a massive night under the lights at Old Trafford.
They seemed the more mature bunch of 11 men, who stood up to the task in a competition that requires a different nous than playing in the league competition. That is where Solskjaer’s men fell short