Manchester United Played Against Liverpool With 10-And-A-Half Men – Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has come out to say that Manchester United played with “10-and-a-half” men after his injury-hit team still went on to hold Liverpool to a 0-0 draw at Old Trafford today.

Solskjaer hwas forced to make three first-half substitutions after Ander Herrera, Juan Mata and Jesse Lingard all picked up hamstring injuries.

Marcus Rashford also had to cope with an ankle injury after an early tackle from Jordan Henderson but played the full 90 minutes after Solskjaer — who had lost Nemanja Matic in the build-up — could not replace him.

His words, “I have never seen it before, three hamstrings in the first half,” Solskjaer told a news conference.

“Rashy was kicked and did his ankle straight away. We should have taken him off as well — we played with 10-and-a-half but the fans made up for it.

“There were quite a few fouls on him, and normally you would take him off after five minutes.

“His ankle blew up and he wanted to run it off — Juan and Ander came off — so I hope he’s not damaged himself too much.”

After the game, Jurgen Klopp was seen mouthing: “S— game” at the final whistle.

Ole said, “He can have his own opinion,”

“We had a good performance — defensively absolutely fantastic.

“He’s not happy, but I was very pleased with the performance and the fans enjoyed it. I learned a lot about the players today.

“I was very impressed by my team — the attitude and the character we showed in adversity. Everything that could have gone wrong first half went wrong. Second half we were magnificent.”