Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said Nemanja Matic’s red card in their Carabao Cup semi-final second leg vs the Manchester City was an absolute joke.
After City’s 3-1 first-leg victory, Nemanja netted n the second leg to give the Red Devils hope of a comeback, only for the ex Chelsea player to see a 2nd yellow in 76th minute.
Speaking after the clash, Ole said his team did not deserve a red and he is very proud to see them beat City for the 2nd time this season.
He added that his players gave everything in the clash, and it pleased him.
His words, “It’s hard to come here and score a goal with 11 men, never mind 10. So it was never a sending off, absolute joke for me,”
“It’s ironic really he gets a yellow card for his first foul, almost gets a yellow on his second foul which isn’t even a foul and then the second one, the last one, is a yellow but nowhere near [a red card].
“How many times did they foul us? How many times was Dan James fouled? How many in the first half on Jesse [Lingard]?
“It’s the first question you’ve asked and it shouldn’t be because I’m so proud of these players. They’ve beaten City now twice in six weeks at their place. We’ve come so far with these boys, they’ve given absolutely everything.
“We wanted to be in the game with five minutes to go. That has to be your game plan when you’re 2-0 down. We’ve done that before and when we got that one [goal] we just needed a moment and unfortunately we couldn’t capitalise.
“These boys have come a long way. They’ve developed. Second half showed as well that even though we didn’t create too many big, clear cut chances, we pressed them back, we had spells where they were defended deep which pleased me.”
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