Twitter reacts to Man United’s Champions League exit

Manchester United crashed out of the Champions League last night with a 3-2 defeat at Wolfsburg, who made club history by reaching the knockout stages.

“It was a insane match”, said Van Gaal, who also saw Jesse Lingard have a goal disallowed before half-time on Tuesday. I would have liked us to take the lead with that chance we had, but then we had to stomach them scoring the first goal.

Rio Ferdinand, alongside Scholes in the BT Sport studios, was equally cutting with his post-match verdict.

Scholes alluded to the fact that if he was in the current United lineup, he would be explaining to the younger players where he would want them on the pitch and help coach them through games rather that let them make the same mistakes over and over again.

That said, the man himself has chose to adopt a defiant stance, claiming that despite crashing out of the Champions League at the first hurdle and being bumped out of the Capital One Cup by Middlesbrough in the fourth round so far this year, the 2015/16 campaign has actually been an improvement on last year’s efforts.

It proved a pivotal moment as United ended up losing 3-2 at Wolfsburg, exiting the Champions League in the process.

Now it’s over. I’ve said to the players: ‘You can not show your qualities any more in the Champions League. “I have changed [substituted] him and I don’t change players for nothing”.

“We’re still in a good position in the Premier League, so the facts are saying we’re better than a year ago”.

It should give Van Gaal a chance to get United back on an even keel, while January brings with it the possibility of adding reinforcements to a squad that is missing several senior players through injury.

In Seville, Fernando Llorente’s 65th-minute goal guided the Spaniards past Juve and enabled them to pip Gladbach into third, ensuring Unai Emery’s men will have a chance to land a third consecutive Europa League crown.

After United slipped from second to third, Ferdinand and Scholes were both critical of Van Gaal’s United, especially given their lavish close-season spending.

“There are a lot of games coming up, so I hope he scores more goals”, the 28-year-old midfielder concluded.

Wolfsburg went in front with the game’s standout goal after 28 minutes when Portuguese Vieirinha put the finishing touch to an astonishing team move, orchestrated by Julian Draxler.

Working in his favour is the fact that, although United’s football continues to exasperate, they are only three points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City and none of their title rivals have yet found form.

“We knew it would be a hard game, but we also knew we could beat them”.