Manchester United Drop Out of The Champions League

 

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With three teams level on points in Group H ahead of MatchDay 6, Manchester United travelled to Germany to take on RB Leipzig in a crucial game. After beating both Paris Saint Germain and RB Leipzig in the reverse fixtures, life came fast at the Red Devils, who now needed to avoided defeat to qualify. They had been excellent on the road and won all the away games in the Premier League despite trailing in all of those matches.

The suprise for United was the exclusion of French Midfielder Paul Pogba, who was on the benched in this crucial game by Ole Gunnar Solskjær. Earlier that day, Pogba's agent Mino Raiola had claimed that "it was all over for Pogba at Man United".

Things didn't go according to United's gameplan as they conceded inside the opening 90 seconds to trail 1-0. What made it worse was the goal was scored by Leipzig's Right Back Angelino who is on loan from Manchester City.

The Loanee from City caused United more troubles as he later assisted Amadou Haidara who smashed in the volley from Angelino's  back post delivery to make it 2-0 inside 13 Minutes. Leipzig thought they had a 3rd goal when Willi Orban scored in the 30th minute, but VAR flagged his goal as offside and it remained 2-0 at Halftime.

In the second half a complete miscommunication between David De Gea and Harry Maguire allowed Justin Kluivert to make it 3-0 in the 69th minute and put the game beyond doubt.

Could the comeback Kings make another comeback? The answer was no. They did have a shout though and gave Leipzig a scare when they scored twice inside 135 seconds from Bruno Fernandes's Penalty in the 80th minute and an own goal from Konate in the 82nd minute. The match finished 3-2 to Leipzig which means the Germans are through with PSG whose came against Istanbul Basaksheir was suspended in the first half after the 4th offical was caught using racial abuse to Basaksheir's technical team. United now drop down to the Europa League. They will have to pick themselves up quickly as they await a visit of City's Rivals on Saturday in the Manchester Derby.