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    Result: Man United crash out of Champions League with defeat at RB Leipzig

    United have actually now dropped into the Europa League.

    Manchester United crashed out of the Champions League after falling just short of an exceptional European return at RB Leipzig as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer‘s side lost 3-2 in Germany.

    Having started Group H with a win at last season’s runners-up Paris St Germain and a luxury screen at home to Tuesday’s challengers, the Red Devils reversed that great work and have actually now dropped into the Europa League.

    United had only required a point from their final 2 matches to reach the knockout stage, yet last week’s loss to PSG was intensified by a heartbreaking defeat at Leipzig as bad safeguarding showed excessive to reverse in a grandstand finish.

    ⏰ 2′ Angeliño ⏰ 13′ Haidara ⏰ 69′ Kluivert ⏰ 80′ Bruno Fernandes ⏰ 82′ Pogba

    Leipzig Manchester United #UCL pic.twitter.com/iRRtMKBamR

    — UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) December 8, 2020

    Angelino, on loan from Manchester City, got Julian Nagelsmann‘s men off to a dream start by lashing home inside 2 minutes, with Amadou Haidara including a second soon after.

    United might quickly have actually fallen even more behind prior to substitute Justin Kluivert capitalized of reluctant safeguarding to put Leipzig 3 goals ahead minutes after a Bruno Fernandes free-kick struck the bar in the second half.

    It showed a hole too big for Solskjaer’s return kings to dig themselves out of, regardless of Fernandes scoring from the spot and substitute Paul Pogba heading in off the back of Harry Maguire in the final 10 minutes.

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