Reds need to learn lessons of Euro crash

EUROPE hasn't laughed at the British this much since we voted for Brexit.

- TYRONE MARSHALL

United's chaotic chaotic Champions League campaign is a thrill-a-minute ride but much like Brexit, it's going to end with a self-inflicted departure from Europe.

Erik ten Hag's side could quite plausibly be without European football at all in the New Year. Certainly, it's almost impossible to imagine a scenario where Galatasaray and FC Copenhagen contrive to draw and open the door for the Reds to stay in the Champions League. Even in such a scenario, they would have to beat Bayern Munich anyway.

Instead, a team who have scored three goals in Munich, Copenhagen, and Istanbul will probably finish bottom of a routine Champions League group. What a feast they have served up on their return to Europe's elite competition, however. You can't take your eyes off the accidental entertainers.

United started well in the Allianz Arena on matchday one before an error from Andre Onana handed.

Bayern the lead. Little did we realise at the time how prescient that was.

Ten Hag's side rallied to eventually score three times, but Bayern could have had double the four they got, and every time the Red got close, they would respond with a goal to hold them at bay.

The Old Trafford defeat to Galatasaray was a wild game that now looks mundane compared to what happened at the Rams Arena.