Knocked Out Of The Champions League After Being Beaten By Munich, Ten Hag: Manchester United Are Not Worth Losing

Manchester United lost to Bayern Munich in the last match of the 2023/2024 Champions League group stage (Instagram.com/@manchesterunited).

JAKARTA - The bitter result was received by Manchester United (MU) because they had to be eliminated from the 2023/2024 Champions League after facing Bayern Munich. Erik ten Hag as coach revealed that the Red Devils were not worthy of defeat.

MU and Munich met on the sixth matchday of Group A of the 2023/2024 Champions League at Old Trafford on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. In the home match, the Red Devils lost 0-1 to the visitors.

If you look at statistics, MU only fired one shot on target from a total of five attempts. For the percentage of possession, MU also lost to Bayern.

However, Ten Hag assessed that MU had performed well. However, he also did not deny that MU's failure to qualify for the last 16 of the Champions League was not only due to this defeat.

"We didn't lose him today, it's clear. We performed well, but we also made mistakes. Individual mistakes. In the end, it wasn't good enough," said Erik Ten Hag, quoted by TNT Sports.

"Today's performance was very good, we didn't deserve to lose, but we lost. The team worked very well. We were very good at defending, very good at pressing, but we didn't have enough to maximize it, that's reality," continued the coach.

On the same occasion, Ten Hag also did not deny that his opponent did have a good performance to make his team eliminated at home.

"Bayern is also a good team. In fact, when they don't enter the game, they have an individual class and only need one moment. Unfortunately that happened," said Erik ten Hag.

The 0-1 defeat to Munich requires Manchester United to finish as caretaker in Group A with four points. The result made them automatically eliminated from the Champions League.

In addition, Manchester United was completely eliminated from the EerOPE League.