Lisandro Martinez hits out at United’s summer transfer business
Lisandro Martinez spoke to Amazon and really let rip: “Really poor. Really poor. I have to control myself a lot but sometimes is a reflection of the mirror of how is our club at the moment.
“We did a fantastic season last season and now we expect more from the top, more players to compete because many teams bring many players as well. Atletico have an amazing team and they deserve to win today.
“I expect more. 100%. I expect more from our technical director. I have to be honest, as players we have to do more but it is also important when you make a strong squad to be ready for this kind of night.”
“Last season we did everything, we created the base to create an amazing team. It is annoying, disappointing coming here and I am not seeing my team trying to get an amazing result here.”
“[Michael Carrick] does his best. Every season is different. You can’t stay with what you did last season. The teams knows how you play, they know every detail, if you don’t change next season is a big problem. You can’t keep changing, changing, changing the manager. What about other areas? I can’t say more.
“Tonight it is easy to say the coach, easy to say the players but also we have to see other areas.”
Updated at 17.39 EDT
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The Champions League table after Tuesday, with games to follow on Wednesday.
Here’s Sid Lowe’s report from Madrid. There will be further reaction to follow.
double quotation markSo much for a reaction, a rebellion: instead, there was a kind of resignation, a sense that this is just their reality: a game that began badly, barely got better, and finished even worse. Even the late red card for Leny Yoro at 1-0 which can be offered up in mitigation may not be really; this isn’t what United are supposed to be.
It’s fair to say Ashley Young and Wayne Rooney are not amused by the Lisandro comments, suggesting he’s gone off the reservation by saying what he did. Next question: will he play at Leeds?
Michael Carrick on Lisandro’s outburst: “I haven’t seen it. After a game like this you come here to try and get something from the game and you are disappointed and can be emotional. I have not seen it so I don’t think it is the right time.
“We all care and show that in different ways but now is the time to be together and work through.”
Updated at 17.31 EDT
More from Tielemans: ““It is very hard to say after a defeat that there is positives. We just have to work hard to keep working and keep trusting in our structure. We have to keep working, keep trusting each other and be together on this.”
Youri Tielemans is asked about Lisandro’s comments: “I have no comment about that.”
“The only thing that’s going to get us back into it is to get a few wins.”
ShareLisandro Martinez hits out at United’s summer transfer business
Lisandro Martinez spoke to Amazon and really let rip: “Really poor. Really poor. I have to control myself a lot but sometimes is a reflection of the mirror of how is our club at the moment.
“We did a fantastic season last season and now we expect more from the top, more players to compete because many teams bring many players as well. Atletico have an amazing team and they deserve to win today.
“I expect more. 100%. I expect more from our technical director. I have to be honest, as players we have to do more but it is also important when you make a strong squad to be ready for this kind of night.”
“Last season we did everything, we created the base to create an amazing team. It is annoying, disappointing coming here and I am not seeing my team trying to get an amazing result here.”
“[Michael Carrick] does his best. Every season is different. You can’t stay with what you did last season. The teams knows how you play, they know every detail, if you don’t change next season is a big problem. You can’t keep changing, changing, changing the manager. What about other areas? I can’t say more.
“Tonight it is easy to say the coach, easy to say the players but also we have to see other areas.”
Updated at 17.39 EDT
Full-times in the Champions League
Atletico Madrid 2-0 Manchester United
Galatasaray 1-4 Barcelona
Inter Milan 3-4 Club Brugge
RB Leipzig 1-0 PSV
Viking 3-3 Bayern Munich
Villarreal 3-1 Napoli
Arsenal 3-0 Lille
Lens 0-2 Sporting
Sabah 2-0 Slavia Prague
A rather easier night for Arsenal.
ShareFull-time: Atletico Madrid 2-0 Manchester United
When you fall behind so early, don’t take your chances and go down to 10 men, the chances are you will lose. And that’s what United did. There were some decent moments but they won’t be enough. The red card was harsh and Michael Carrick will doubtless talk of small margins in post-match but it was not nearly enough. They remain on two wins all season. The poor start is becoming a poor season.
90+3 min: Another United chance that goes begging. Zirkzee deliberates when the ball comes his way via an error, and then Cunha shoots on goal. Oblak makes another save. Again, better execution required from United. Their finishing all season has been poor, scratchy.
Updated at 16.55 EDT
90 min: Five minutes added on for United to suffer through. Atletico are happy to pass the ball around. This one is done, stick a fork in it, referee.
88 min: Le Normand replaces Simeone Jnr and is almost immediately booked. Things happen quickly in this game.
86 min: The ball is in Atletico’s half most of the time at this point but United look incapable of getting through. They had the chances, but did not take them. Each of them had a high tariff of difficulty but a good team takes them. United are not a good team at present.
85 min: Robin Le Normand, the medieval knight, is set to come on for Atletico.
83 min: On to Leeds for United; it does not get any easier for Carrick. Leeds gave Arsenal quite the game on Saturday and United’s physical capabilities are still in question.
81 min: Maguire’s arrival is followed by a corner and an awful lot of pushing in the box. The corner comes to nothing and Mason Mount has to chase back, and win a foul from his chaser.
Updated at 16.59 EDT
80 min: The game lost for United, off go Heaven and Bruno, and on come Cunhaa and Maguire.
ShareGoal! Atletico Madrid 2-0 Manchester United (Lookman, 79)
And that caps it off. David’s shot is saved, and it comes to Lookman, who slides it in. The two subs have won this game for Atletico, and lost it for United with the red card and that clinching goal.
Atletico Madrid’s Ademola Lookman slides home to double the home side’s lead. Photograph: Bernat Armangué/APManchester United’s Bruno Fernandes reacts after conceding a second goal. Photograph: Adam Davy/PAShare
Updated at 17.09 EDT
78 min: Joshua Keeling speaks for a few when he says: “I’m sorry but that is an absolute disgrace of a decision. That is not even a foul, never mind a red card. Goodness me, what a joke.”
77 min: That makes it tougher for United. Just when they had put out the fires of Alvarez and Baena, that happens.
75 min: Some confusion there. It looked harsh, a coming together. But, say the officials, it counts as a denial of a goalscoring opportunity, and so lands the first red of Leny Yoro’s career.
ShareVAR decision: red card for Yoro
73 min: Some anger when David goes down heavy under a tackle from Yoro. The ball spins to Lookman who has a shot saved. A foul is given to United but out comes the curly finger of VAR. And, so as a clear and obvious error has been committed, off goes Yoro.
Manchester United’s Leny Yoro (right) tussles with Jonathan David before the Atletico Madrid player hits the deck. Photograph: Bernat Armangué/APYoro (left) is shown a red card by referee Glenn Nyberg after a VAR review. Photograph: Susana Vera/ReutersShare
Updated at 17.34 EDT
71 min: Two more Atleti changes: Baena and Alvarez off, Lookman and Hjulmand on. The latter was long linked with United when Ruben Amorim was manager. Sporting friends.
70 min: Fernandes strikes the crossbar, and from a short corner, the ball exchanged with Amad and then drilled over Oblak’s head and back out.
68 min: Fernandes has gone into the position that Tielemans vacated. And he gets a a chance from that central position. United continue to push forward. Mbeumo has gone out right, as Zirkzee goes to the centre.
66 min: United make changes: Zirkzee, Mount and Amad on, Tielemans, Baleba and Rashford off. Baleba was the superior performer of the departed trio.
65 min: Baena dances and cavorts in the box, and then digs out a vicious shot. Lammens just about holds on to the ball.
64 min: Nice pass from Baleba, and Bruno hits a cross first time, aimed at Mbeumo but Romero cuts it off. Here come the United changes.
63 min: Llorente, such a warrior, steps in stop Tielemans. What changes can Carrick make? Fans of Boro tell us that was often slow to make them there. An extra spark would help though that bench looks short of anything remotely electric.
61 min: Atleti subs: Lee and Barrios off, and on come Jonathan David and Marc Pubill.
60 min: Feels like a game where both teams are waiting for the chance to counter. Though Baena carries a threat even when there’s heavy traffic and fires a shot that will not beat Lammens.
58 min: Ooof. Tielemans, at last, finds space, and his pass is a belter. Bruno waits for the bounce, it’s there to be hit, but it’s stabbed wide. Bruno Fernandes at his best buries thar.
56 min: Chris Greenhough gets in touch: “I don’t know what’s more deflating: United’s sluggish performances so far this year, or the fact that the Wilcoxes, Brailsfords, and Berradas will coast through the whole shambles, unquestioned and untarnished. In any other job, etc. etc…”
So does Tim Stappard: “Of course Carrick will lose his job. They all do. The question is whether Wilcox and Berrada do. He also definitely doesn’t have a clue what his best side and formation is.
55 min: So close for Atleti. Great ball from Barrios, and Alvarez scuffs his volley off the post. United strike it lucky once more. There’s real quality, and they will get punished if they keep switching off.
53 min: Santos is sat deepest of the United midfield, holding while Baleba steps forward. United are back in the groove they all too briefly found in the first half. Llorente eventually robs Tielemans who has struggled for impact in his more advanced position.
52 min: Romero steps out to rob Baleba, and then Simeone wins a foul from a Rashford challenge. The United player gets the first on-field booking of the night.