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Erik ten Hag speaks

“We are winning and then we are losing,” says Manchester United’s manager in an interview with TNT. “We should have taken three points, clearly. This is the same in more games - home against Galatasaray and away in Copenhagen, we played so good. So I have to make a compliment to my team but I also have to criticise the team and us as a coaching staff and me as a manager. We are leading 3-1 and you can’t afford such mistakes we are making because it makes a difference. Every goal has it’s own story. Our mistakes can’t be, because in the Champions League you get punished for it so we have to learn from it.”

Bruno Fernades speaks ...

He’s asked what the mood in the United dressing-room is: “I couldn’t go to the dressing-room because of the doping controls so I don’t know,” the United captain tells TNT. “Obviously, we concede really bad goals and I think we have to take control of those situations in all of them. We were two goals up twice and had far too many chances to score another goal and have the game closed. We weren’t clinical enough.

“At the end of the game we had four chances to score a goal but we couldn’t do it. We have to put our heads up and understand that sometimes it’s about finding another pass to the player that is free. We hasve to try to get the ball to the one in the best position and not take the chance ourselves. For the team first and then after for ourselves.”

If that last comment isn’t a dig at Anthony Martial, I’ll eat my own shoes.

Match report: Galatasaray 3-3 Manchester United

Group A: Andre Onana had another bad day at the office as Manchester United twice threw away a two-goal lead to leave their hopes of advancing to the knockout stages hanging by a thread. Here’s Will Unwin’s on-the-whistle report for the ages …

What now for United? It’s simple. If they are to qualify for the knockout stages, Erik ten Hag’s men have to hope Copenhagen don’t win against Bayern Munich tonight and then beat the German side at Old Trafford in a fortnight. Even that won’t be enough, as they’ll also need FC Copenhagen to beat or draw with Galatasaray in Denmark on the same evening. It’s a tall order and no mistake.

A quick recap of a crazy game: Having gone two goals ahead courtesy of excellent strikes from Alejandro Garnacho and Bruno Fernandes, Manchester let their hosts back into the game courtesy of a Hakin Ziyech free-kick that Andre Onana should almost certainly have saved. Scott McTominay restored United’s two-goal cushion with his first ever Champions League goal.

That should have been that, but with all discipline gone from both sides and the game increasingly resembling a basketball match, Ziyech struck at another free-kick with Onana badly at fault again. Galatasaray’s equaliser was the pick of the six goals, Kerem Akturkoglu coming off the bench to score with a sublime screamer from distance after teeing himself up with a wonderful first touch.

The game promptly descended into the footballing equivalent saloon brawl, with both sides going close multiple times in the frantic closing stages but ultimately unable to find a winner. It was an incredible match played in a bubbling cauldron and it will live long in the memory of all who saw or played in it.

And breathe: That was a terrific game of football but due in no small part to the ropiness of their goalkeeper, Manchester United let a two-goal lead slip twice. They remain bottom of Group A with four points and can still qualify for the knockout stages going into match day six but will be out of the Champions League if FC Copenhagen beat Bayern Munich tonight.

Full time: Galatasaray 3-3 Manchester United

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep! An astonishing game ends after just three minutes of added time with United having to settle for a draw.

90 min: Torreira comes perilously close to scoring past his own goalkeeper, almost steering a Dalot pull-back into his own net. His unwitting “effort” is blocked by Boey and then Muslera saves brilliantly from Pellistri’s effort from close range on the follow-up. Galatasaray finally clear after this slapstick goalmouth scramble.

87 min: Swinging haymakers at each other like two drunks slugging it out in a pub car-park, United and Galatasaray keep plugging away in their respective searches for a winner. Martial is the latest to go close but he runs into traffic in the Galatasaray penalty area, incurring the wrath of Fernandes for not playing an early pass.

86 min: United break upfield after Zaha’s near-miss and Bruno Fernandes hits the left upright with a speculative effort from 25 yards out. This is bonkers!!!

85 min: … but he doesn’t! He cuts into the United penalty zarea, creates a yard of space with a stepover and shoots straight at Onana from 14 yards out.

84 min: Zaha must score …

84 min: Galatasaray double-substitution: VBictor Nelsson and Baris Yilmaz on for Angelino and Ziyech.

82 min: Pellistri gets in behind Boey down the left flank, cuts insaide and runs into a pocket of space. With two United players outside him he elects to shoot and succeeds only in scooping the ball over the bar.

80 min: Antony jinks inside from the right, takes on and beats a couple of defenders and plays a weighted pass in behind for Dalot to chase. Fernando Muslera is quick off his line to deny the substitute. What Dalot is doing on the edge of Galatasaray’s six-yard box is anyone’s guess but it’s that kind of crazy game.

78 min: Manchester United double-substitution: Diogo Dalot and Facundo Pellistri on for Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Alejandro Garnacho.

77 min: There are gaps opening up all over the place and Manchester United go close twice in quick succession. Garnacho sends a shot from distance curling inches wide of the upright, berfore McTominay finds himself through on goal and fires a low effort narrowly wide of the upright.

75 min: Manchester United are on the ropes and Galatasaray know it. They’re going all out for a winner in a match where both teams seem hell bent on throwing the kitchen sink at each other in this second half.

73 min: Sprinting towards goal and latching on to a ball over the top from deep, Akturcoglu controlled the ball beautifully with his first touch, taking it away from Mainoo. With his second he sent the ball screaming into the top corner before wheeling away to celebrate with a kneeslide towards the corner flag.

GOAL! Galatasaray 3-3 Manchester United (Akturkoglu 71)

Galatasaray equalise! And it’s a wonderful strike from the substitute. My word, what a game this has turned out to be.

69 min: Galatasaray are looking lethal on the counter-attack and Ziyech goes close again, cutting in from the right and unleashing a shot that Onana parries under pressure from the onrushing Icardi.

67 min: On as a sub for Dries Mertens, Kerem Aktukoglu has a long-range effort saved with a minimum of fuss by Onana. Sergio Oliviera is also on for Galatasaray, with Tanguy Ndombele having made way after a very quiet hour.

64 min: That was a lot worse than the first one from Onana’s point of view. The free-kick was wide on the right and Onana only set up a one-man defensive wall. Ziyech whipped the ball into the six-yard box, Onana got down to save it and somehow got gulled by the bounce. He managed to let the ball squirm out of his grasp and over the line. That is dreadful goalkeeping.

GOAL! Galatasaray 2-3 Manchester United (Ziyech 62)

62 min: Not for the first time in this match, Fernandes fouls Ziyech in a dangerous position. And not for the first time in this match, Ziyech makes Onana look a fool by scoring past him from the ensuing free-kick.

59 min: Luke Shaw is booked for a tactical foul on Ziyech moments after Manchester United had brought on Kobbie Ainoo and Anthony Martial for Sofyan Amrabat and Rasmus Hojlund.

58 min: If I made that sound like a tap-in, I have done McTominay a grave disservice. His finish was from about eight or nine yards out and he steered the ball home from quite a tight angle.

GOAL! Galatasaray 1-3 Manchester United (McTominay 55)

United score their third! McTominay scores his first ever Champions League goal, letting the ball roll across him from an Aaron Wan-Bissakas pass inside before sliding it home at the near post.

54 min: Galatasaray centrel defender Kaan Aylian is booked for dissent. At least I think it was him, the ref waved his card in the general direction of both the home side’s centre-halves.

52 min: Caught slightly out of position, Muslera does well to prevent a Fernandes cross from dipping under the cross-bar while simultaneously palming it away from Rasmus Hojlund.

51 min: Wan-Bissaka and Antony link up well down the right flank but the Brazilian surrenders possession with a wayward pass. Torreira advances upfield for the hosts.

50 min: From the left flank, Garnacho overhits a cross into the Galatasaray penalty area with two of his own men waiting for a more precise delivery.

48 min: Galatasaray’s other centre-half, Kaan Aylian, gets on the end of a terrific Ziyech cross from the right, getting in front of Hojlund only to volley high and wide at the near post when equalising for Galatasaray looked easier.

47 min: Galatasaray centre-half Abdulkerin Bardacki lofts a sweet pass forward to Angelino, who sends a sidefoot volley into the Manchester United penalty area with his first touch. His cross is cleared.

Second half: Galatasaray 1-2 Manchester United

46 min: Play resumes with no changes in personnel on either side.

Half-time: Galatasaray 1-2 Manchester United

It’s time to put the kettle on. A tremendously entertaining first half draws to a close with United leading by the odd goal in three. Alejandro Garnacho put them ahead with a blistering shot into the roof of the net after good work from Bruno Fernades, and it was the United skipper who doubled his side’s lead with a screamer from distance seven minutes later.

Galatasaray pulled a goal back through a Hakim Ziyech free-kick that Andre Onana probably should have saved and the Turkish champions came this close to equalising through Mauro Icardi, only for the Argentinian striker’s fine finish to be ruled out for a very, very tight offside.

45+2 min: Amrabat is penalised for and booked for a foul on Torreira and Galatasaray win a free-kick wide on the right. The ball’s sent into the United penalty area, where Harry Maguire thumps the ball clear with his big head. It’s half-time.

Offside! Clean through on goal, Mauro Icaradi sells Onana a dummy and then spanks the ball past him after latching on to a long Boey diagonal over the top. It’s a fine finish but his effort is ruled out for offside. That was extremely tight.

41 min: Sacha Boey is booked for a foul on Garnacho. Somewhat unconvincingly, he protests his innocence in the face of incontrovertible evidence of his guilt.

39 min: Galatasaray goalkeeper and captain Fernando Muslera sprints out of his area to hack the ball clear before Rasmus Hojlund can pounce.

39 min: Nothing comes of this one, with Scott McTominay heading harmlessly over from Fernandes’ latest delivery.

37 min: United corner. Bruno Fernades sends the ball into the mixer but Galatasaray scramble it clear. It reaches Andre Onana, who controls it under pressure on the halfway line and sends it back upfield. Another corner for United.

35 min: Zaha gets a sight of goal and shoots from 15 yards but his effort is blocked by Harry Maguire, who immediately scolds Arron Wan-Bissaka for giving the ball away in the build-up.

34 min: The collective Galatasaray tail is up and their fans are back in full voice as their team go in search of an equaliser. The pitch is holding up fine, despite pre-match conerns.

31 min: As Ziyech stepped up to take that free-kick, Andre Onana took a step to his left, basically wrong-footing himself in the process. Had he not moved prematurely, one suspects Ziyech’s shot would have been straight at him.

GOAL! Galatasaray 1-2 Manchester United (Ziyech 29)

Galatasaray pull one back! Hakim Ziyech scores from the free-kick, shooting through a gap in the Manchester United wall where two of his teammates had been standing, only to peel away at the last second. Andre Onana should have done better!

27 min: Bruno Fernandes is booked after sprinting all the way from the Glaatasaray box to the the edge of his own to foul Lucas Torreira. He gets booked for his sterling effort.

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