Man Utd 2-3 Galatasaray: Post-match reaction from Old Trafford

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Michael Plant gives his verdict as Manchester United suffer another disappointing night at home, and Galatasaray take an important three points in the Champions League.

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00:00 Hello it's Michael Plante coming to you from Old Trafford after once again we've

00:04 had a pretty bonkers game involving Manchester United. They've lost

00:07 3-2 tonight to Galatasaray in the Champions League in a really

00:11 devastating result for their Champions League hopes and their hopes of

00:14 progressing to the next round of the competition. Just going to move out of the way

00:17 for a second to just show you the Galatasaray fans just behind me they're

00:20 still here and what are we 20 minutes now after the full-time whistle. I saw

00:26 something quite remarkable that I've never seen here at Old Trafford before

00:29 that there were just hundreds, thousands of fans left in the stadium about 15

00:35 minutes after the game literally flooding from other areas of the ground

00:38 across just to celebrate with the fans over there. I've never seen anything like it

00:42 at Old Trafford. One section of the fans chatting to the other. There

00:45 seemed to be a group of fans with the other side of the stadium. I don't

00:48 really know what happened. Obviously they've managed to get tickets in the home end but a

00:51 pretty incredible night here at Old Trafford. One that the heads slightly

00:54 still spinning from if I'm totally honest. Another bonkers night involving

00:58 Manchester United who as I say suffer another home defeat. That's three out of

01:02 the last four now they've lost at home in all competitions. Of course lost to

01:05 Brighton and Hove Albion a couple of weeks ago, Crystal Palace at the weekend and

01:08 now Galatasaray. Tonight showed a lot of the issues once again. They've bladed

01:14 Eric Tenhag's team for long parts of this season because I actually thought

01:17 United for 75 minutes of this game with a better team played really well but

01:22 suddenly everything goes wrong and they just collapse. United they cannot deal

01:26 with setbacks, they can't deal with things going wrong, they can't deal with

01:29 issues. Defensively they're all over the place at the moment.

01:33 Individual players are not living up to the levels that they were playing at

01:37 last season. Kasimir in particular, I'll come to him. You know you've got a lack

01:42 of leadership at times at United. This should have been a game when they went

01:45 2-1 up in the latter stages. They should have won. A good team would see this game

01:49 out but United lacking backbone, lacking a real structure at times it seems

01:53 couldn't manage to get across the line. I'll give you a quick run through of

01:56 exactly what happened tonight. So Rasmus Hoyland put United 1-0 up early on.

02:01 By far and away United's best player for all the issues that are surrounding the

02:04 recruitment and all the problems surrounding United at the moment. Rasmus Hoyland

02:07 is a ray of sunshine I think at this club because his performance level

02:11 since he came in, I was among the many who weren't sure if he was the right

02:14 signing and the way he has played he's completely silenced all his doubters.

02:18 Okay it's very early on and you don't want to get ahead of yourself but he

02:21 played absolutely fantastically tonight. He put United ahead early on. Great cross

02:24 from Marcus Rashford. He nodded in, gave United a 1-0 lead.

02:29 Galatasaray went down the other end almost immediately equalised. Long ball

02:33 over the top. Diogo Dalot couldn't deal with it. Wilfred Zaha and him were

02:38 grappling for the ball. Ball kind of points up nicely. Zaha smashed it in

02:41 deflecting off Dalot who had a pretty stinking night if I'm honest. Certainly

02:44 in the first half really struggled to deal with Wilfred Zaha.

02:47 Anyway United went in half time 1-1. Came out for the second half.

02:53 Were quite good actually for the first 15-20 minutes all over them and eventually

02:56 got the goal. A mistake from Davison Sanchez the former Tottenham player

02:59 actually on loan from Tottenham at the moment still. Ball bounces, he

03:03 slips. Hoyland fires in a goal. Lovely little dink over the goalkeeper.

03:07 Fantastic and you think from there United are going to win on a really big

03:10 night in the Champions League for them but no. These old deficiencies and frailties

03:14 once again reared their head and within a couple of minutes I'm gonna have to

03:19 write this name out. Karim Akcinterglai. That's my best pronunciation of it

03:26 anyway. He equalised for Galatasaray. I think it was two minutes after United

03:31 went ahead. Lovely ball across. First time finish from him and he scored. It's

03:35 right through the heart of the United midfield and then I think the big

03:37 turning point of the game. Casemiro decides. The ball comes in to the box.

03:41 Casemiro lunging to try and get the ball from Dries Mertens. Fouls the Belgian

03:45 star. Brings him to the ground. Referee has no option but to show him a second

03:49 yellow card. Although personally I didn't think his first yellow card should have

03:52 been a booking but maybe a conversation for a later date. But then the

03:57 referee had no option but to point to the spot. Show him a second yellow card

04:00 because he did try and play the balls with just the yellow. Doesn't matter

04:02 anyway. It was sent off. United down to 10 men. They get a penalty. Mario

04:05 Ricciardi stands up but he misses. Went for par. Missed the target

04:10 altogether. At that point United needed to close this off. Make sure they don't

04:13 lose. But of course these deficiencies I was talking about. One long header

04:19 from actually the inside of the Galatasaray half managed to play in

04:23 Ricciardi who just a couple of minutes after missing that penalty chipped the ball

04:27 over Onana who again didn't impress tonight for me to give Galatasaray the

04:30 lead. From there United couldn't really get back into the game and

04:33 didn't really create many chances. Bruno Fernandes free kick and Anthony

04:36 Martial shot that was saved. Was subsequently flagged offside. That was

04:39 about it and United suddenly again when they have to deal with difficulties

04:43 when they have to stand up and be counted for this United team wilt under

04:45 the pressure and that was once again the case here. Look I could talk all day

04:49 about the problems that are impacting United at the moment and of course you

04:52 know they've got so many injuries they were without a recognised left back

04:54 tonight which is a big problem. They had to play Safian Amrabat there. He was

04:57 responsible for the third goal because he played because he's bad pass and then

05:01 he played everyone onside. So that's an issue and yeah there's just so many

05:05 issues blighting this Manchester United side at the moment and a big issue

05:08 tonight is that Bayern Munich won so they are now on six points. Galatasaray

05:13 on three points. United on zero. Copenhagen on one. I mean United, I see

05:18 Galatasaray as their main rivals for second spot. This is a huge advantage to

05:22 Galatasaray now. I suspect United will either have to beat

05:26 Bayern at home or go to Turkey and get a result because yeah they're

05:30 really really just underwhelming and underperforming. There's so many questions

05:33 for Tenhak to ask, to be asked. So many questions for the players I think to

05:37 answer as well. It's just not good enough from United at the moment. They need to

05:39 drastically improve and step up and we'll have to see of course if they can

05:43 manage to do that but for me Michael Plant, Arnaud Travertine, that is just about all.

05:46 I'll give you one last little look at those jubilant Galatasaray fans. Really

05:50 fantastic away support tonight I have to say but as always we've got all the

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