‘We fought to the very end,but at the end football is a game of luck,you can’t predict what’s going to happen next’: Man united star Bruno Fernandez delivers honest verdict on Man united loss yesterday
Bruno Fernandes admits the mood in the Manchester United dressing room ‘is not the best’ after their ‘disappointing’ defeat to Copenhagen on Wednesday night. United sit at the bottom of Group A with just three points from four matches after they twice let a lead slip to lose 4-3 in Denmark.
Erik ten Hag’s side had started the match well after two well-taken goals by Rasmus Hojlund against his former club, but the game turned on its head when Marcus Rashford was shown a controversial red card following a VAR check.
Copenhagen scored twice in two minutes to level before the break, but United responded well after it and regained the lead when Bruno Fernandes fired in an emphatic penalty. Lukas Lerager levelled things for the hosts seven minutes from time, before substitute Roony Bardghji netted a dramatic winner to add more misery to United’s campaign.
Speaking after the match, club captain Fernandes was asked to give an insight into how the players had reacted to such a gut-wrenching defeat.
“Disappointment,” he told MUTV of the dressing room mood. “I think for everything we did in the game, we could and should have gotten something. It is difficult at the moment, obviously, and the mood is not the best because I think we fought so hard with ten men that even from then on it was playing against a team that plays really well on the ball, and as a part of that, many decisions went against us.
“Today was a tough day but I think the team effort was good. We tried. We could have done some things better, but it was difficult for us from thirty minutes on, playing with one player less.”
Despite the defeat, Fernandes insists United have not given up their hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League.
He added: “Even before this game, that was still the belief: to win the last three games of the group stage. And now we have to. We have to win them. If we want to stay in the Champions League and stay in the best competition, we have to win against the best.
“We have a really tough game away against Galatasaray and after we play against the top of the group. We want to win both, but now we have to focus on Luton, because it is going to be a tough game again. We need three points in the league and we need to get back to the winning track after this defeat.”
