EPL Coach Following Champions League Knockout: ‘thought we didn’t deserve to lose’

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Premier League coach Erik Ten Hag seemed surprised his boys were defeated by Bayern Munich in the Champions League match that ended their UCL campaign. He popularly said he was surprised they lost after playing such fine game, but pundit Rio Ferdinand had a different view.

Bayern Munich came to Old Trafford and beat Manchester United by one goal on Tuesday, thereby ending their Champions League hopes for the season. It is also unlikely that United will lift the Premier League gold, being ten points behind the top spot and having little more opportunities. Furthermore, the team is in a very bad shape.

In reaction to the messy loss on Tuesday, Ferdinand said the following on TNT sports: ‘When the groups came out, you would’ve thought that Manchester United could’ve gone through, but to score three goals in each of their away games and to come away with the points they did is criminal really.

‘To score that many goals in the group stage – 12 in the group stage but they conceded 15.

‘That’s kamikaze football, that’s basketball football, we attack, you attack. And they got their just rewards because if you can’t close matches out, then you don’t deserve to go through to the knockout stages.’

But out-of-favour coach, Erik Ten Hag, thought his team played nicely and should have won the match.

Ten Hag said, ‘We didn’t lose it today, that’s clear. We had good performances but then also we made mistakes. Some individual errors from some players and it wasn’t good enough. But today, the performance was very good and I thought we didn’t deserve to lose.’

It is still possible that the coach might not be kicked out till next the season.