Twitter reacts to United’s Champions League exit

Meanwhile, at a wild match in Wolfsburg, Manchester United were ousted from the group stage of the Champions League in a 3-2 loss to the Germans. “We scored goals. They are canceling goals”, said United manager Louis van Gaal in a post-match interview -pointing to the fact that Wolfsburg players complained right after Mata’s offside ruling, leaving the lineman in agreement.

With United now condemned to the Europa League and Thursday night matches, there was no shortage of tweets making fun of their plight.

The Champions League win over CSKA broke Wayne Rooney’s 404-minute goalless drought.

Heading into the final round of the group stage this week, only one English team – Manchester City – has already qualified for the knockout stage and the other three are far from sure of joining them. Compare this to Bayern Munich, for example, who are 13-1-1 and have a 35 goal differential.

“But let us see next summer”. The 4-0 demolition in the Camp Nou is what most people remember, yet it was the 3-1 defeat away in Gothenburg – inspired by future United winger Jesper Blomqvist – that proved costly.

Cruel as it is, The Red Devils are never likely to get much sympathy from rival fans when they suffer disappointment out on the pitch.

And, with Italian champions Juventus losing 1-0 at Sevilla, Manuel Pellegrini’s side finish top of Group D, with Juventus qualifying as runners-up. It’s better to finish first but all important teams will be in Round of 16 – if you want to win the title you have to play against the biggest teams.

Wolfsburg’s 29-game unbeaten run at home came to an end Saturday when Shinji Kagawa scored Borussia Dortmund’s victor in the 93rd minute, two minutes after Ricardo Rodriguez had equalized.

Manchester United’s Bastian Schweinsteiger, weighed in on his club’s current brand of football in a pre-match interview with BT Sport.

With Manchester United getting knocked out on Tuesday and Arsenal facing elimination, one has to wonder whether the once kings of Europe have been dethroned.

Valencia is third in Group H with six points and is trying to overtake Ghent in second with seven.

In other action, Real Madrid beat Swedish club Malmo 8-0, while Paris Saint-Germain defeated Shakhtar 2-0.