{"id":298740,"date":"2023-11-29T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=298740"},"modified":"2023-11-29T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T21:25:07","slug":"fernandes-pulls-no-punches-in-damning-verdict-of-man-united-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/fernandes-pulls-no-punches-in-damning-verdict-of-man-united-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandes pulls no punches in damning verdict of Man United collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>&#8216;We have to be smart&#8230; everyone has to step up and take responsibility of their own mistakes&#8217;: Bruno Fernandes pulls no punches in damning assessment of Man United&#8217;s Champions League collapse against Galatasaray<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MATCH REPORT: Man United fall short in six-goal thriller away to Galatasaray\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>PLAYER RATINGS: Onana makes two errors as he has a NIGHTMARE in Turkey<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Was Garnacho&#8217;s overhead kick REALLY the greatest ever? Listen to the debate on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bruno Fernandes warned his wounded Manchester United team-mates they must &#8216;step up and take responsibility of their own mistakes&#8217; after Erik ten Hag&#8217;s side threw another two-goal lead away in the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>A goal and an assist from Fernandes set United on their way with a 2-0 lead inside 18 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But things would unravel as goalkeeper Andre Onana made two mistakes on two Hakim Ziyech free-kicks and now United&#8217;s Champions League hopes hang by a thread at the end of a 3-3. draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s really hard. We conceded really bad goals. We have to take control of the situations in all of them,&#8217; a frustrated Fernandes told <span>TNT Sports<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We were on top of the game twice and we had far too many chances to have the game closed. We were not clinical enough.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/20\/78389465-12806577-image-a-44_1701289232575.jpg\" height=\"429\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes was exasperated that another lead was let slip<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/20\/78389701-12806577-image-a-54_1701289607566.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Kerem Akturkoglu came off the bench to punish Manchester United in a thrilling 3-3 draw<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed on how another two-goal lead escaped them on a night where they needed to win, Fernandes was out of explanations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s too hard to be honest, I don&#8217;t want to be too negative,&#8217; he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But what we have been doing in the Champions League is not enough. It is not the first game we&#8217;ve had like this. We have to secure the result.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have to understand in these types of games and stages we have to be smart enough and manage the game better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Everyone has to step up and take responsibility of their own mistakes. Now we don&#8217;t depend on ourselves but it is what it is.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The draw means United&#8217;s destiny is now not in their own hands heading into Matchday Six, where they host runaway group winners Bayern Munich.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/20\/78388185-12806577-image-a-56_1701289632761.jpg\" height=\"369\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Andre Onana made two mistakes in a nightmare evening for the goalkeeper in Istanbul<\/p>\n<p>It was a frustrating night for Manchester United though, particularly given two of the three goals were lifted via mistakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Galatasaray&#8217;s first was a free-kick that went in goalkeeper&#8217;s side after Onana miscalculated the trajectory and stepped to his left as it went in to his right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second, also scored from a free-kick by Ziyech, was even more egregious as Onana spilled into the net from close range.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Akturkoglu&#8217;s equaliser was a stunning strike but it left a lot to be desired about Manchester United&#8217;s defending down the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The whole episode evoked memories of their collapse in Copenhagen, and how they threw the game away at home to Galatasaray.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Fernandes was out of ways to explain mistakes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/29\/20\/78389457-12806577-image-a-55_1701289626432.jpg\" height=\"431\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Fernandes called on his team-mates to stand up and take ownership of their own mistakes<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have nothing to explain,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We concede the two goals and there&#8217;s nothing we can do now. Obviously we could have done better with those two goals but it is what it is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Every time we conceded a goal we had many chances to score again. At the end of the game we had four chances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have to lift our heads up and try to get the best players in the best positions and not take chances ourselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We need to put the team first. It was mistakes by ourselves on the goals we conceded.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2017\/08\/02\/636x90_facebook_ad_sport.png\" width=\"636\" height=\"90\"><br \/>\nSource: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12806577\/Bruno-Fernandes-damning-assessment-Man-United-Champions-League.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;We have to be smart&#8230; everyone has to step up and take responsibility of their own mistakes&#8217;: Bruno Fernandes pulls no punches in damning assessment of Man United&#8217;s Champions League collapse against Galatasaray MATCH REPORT: Man United fall short in six-goal thriller&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fernandes pulls no punches in damning verdict of Man United collapse - Sports-Life-News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/fernandes-pulls-no-punches-in-damning-verdict-of-man-united-collapse\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fernandes pulls no punches in damning verdict of Man United collapse - Sports-Life-News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8216;We have to be smart&#8230; 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