Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has disclosed his side’s performance was ‘unforgivable’ after losing 2-1 to Istanbul Basaksehir on Wednesday.
“The performance wasn’t good enough against a team that worked and ran, and they beat us on the break a couple of times, and scored two goals like you do sometimes in Europe, when you don’t defend well enough,” he said after the game.
“The first one is we play a short corner, and we forget about the man up top, and that is unforgivable.
“The second one as well, we’re not very well organised to counter press and win the ball back. Two soft goals to give away but we didn’t have enough to come back.
Anthony Martial had pulled one in for the visitors before the break but it wasn’t enough to see them pick a valuable point from the game.
Man Utd, came close to sharing the spoils two minutes from regulation time but an organised defensive display from the host ensured the score line remained at 2 – 1.
Solskjaer continued, “We scored from a cross, a good goal from Anthony. Then you think, 45 minutes to save something from the game. We threw everything at it but we couldn’t break them down.”
Man Utd suffered a second straight defeat last night having fell 1-0 to Arsenal on Sunday in the Premier League.
The Norwegian couldn’t hold back his disappointment as he admitted it was another blow to his side’s confidence after an awful start to their campaign.
“It has set us back a lot. You get a reality check every time you play a game of football. Nothing becomes history quicker than a game of football,” he explained.
“You don’t just turn up and get three points in the Champions League. We weren’t good enough.
