{"id":294965,"date":"2023-10-03T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=294965"},"modified":"2023-10-03T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T23:24:19","slug":"eriksen-admits-it-was-very-quiet-in-united-dressing-room-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/eriksen-admits-it-was-very-quiet-in-united-dressing-room-after-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Eriksen admits 'it was very quiet' in United dressing room after loss"},"content":{"rendered":"
Christian Eriksen has admitted ‘it was very quiet’ in the Manchester United dressing room after the defeat by Galatasaray on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The Red Devils fell to a jaw-dropping, error-ridden 3-2 defeat at home as Erik ten Hag’s side saw their start to the season go from bad to worse in an embarrassing Champions League collapse.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It’s a big disappointment,’ Eriksen said. ‘It was very quiet in the dressing room.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘I think we had some good spells in the game, but in the end, when we went ahead, we conceded shortly after and of course, that makes it difficult to stay in the game.<\/p>\n
‘That’s something we have to change and quickly. I don’t think it’s confidence, it’s more awareness and sharpness to really keep our form.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Andre Onana’s atrocious pass out straight to Dries Mertens led to Casemiro’s red card<\/p>\n
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Wilfried Zaha stunned Old Trafford on his return to Manchester with a first-half equaliser<\/p>\n
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Mauro Icardi scored the winner for Galatasaray at Old Trafford after missing a penalty<\/p>\n
‘Going ahead twice, you shouldn’t throw that away and we’ve done that in some other games this season.<\/p>\n
‘I don’t think it’s confidence, I think it’s sharpness and wrong decisions at the wrong times and a bit of bad luck following us around at the moment. We have to do a lot of work but again it’s details<\/p>\n
‘The chances they had were from our mistakes and if we don’t make them, we don’t concede as we do. Luckily, it’s only the start of the competition, we’ve only played two games and there’s still a lot of games to play.<\/p>\n
‘We know for the next game we need to win every game for the opportunity to go through.’<\/p>\n
Having lost their Group A opener at Bayern Munich and fallen to a fourth defeat in seven Premier League matches on Saturday, United reached a new low on a wet Tuesday night at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n
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Rasmus Hojlund scored twice for United and looked pacey and brilliant throughout the night<\/p>\n
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Midfielder Christian Eriksen says Man United can turn their season around<\/p>\n
Rasmus Hojlund scored a superb second after his opener was cancelled out by Galatasaray’s grinning former United forward Wilfried Zaha, only for Ten Hag’s men to spectacularly unravel.<\/p>\n
Kerem Akturkoglu equalised and summer signing Andre Onana’s atrocious pass out straight to Dries Mertens led to a poor Casemiro recovery challenge that saw the Brazil midfielder sent off and a penalty awarded.<\/p>\n
The goalkeeper – guilty of a costly gaffe in Munich – was relieved to see Mauro Icardi strike the spot-kick wide, but the striker swiftly made amends as United fell to a third Old Trafford loss of the campaign.<\/p>\n
United lie bottom of Group A after two fixtures having failed to ‘get back on track’ as Ten Hag demanded in his programme notes.<\/p>\n