Victory over United was ‘our weakest show’ insists Copenhagen boss

FC Copenhagen boss Jacob Neestrup has hit out at his facet’s efficiency regardless of their dramatic 4-3 victory over Man United on Wednesday.

The Danish giants beat Erik ten Hag‘s facet in a chaotic encounter that noticed them get well from two targets all the way down to stage the tie, earlier than scoring twice in the direction of the top to show round a 3-2 deficit right into a 4-3 win.

The victory on the Parken Stadium – which was helped by Marcus Rashford’s first half purple card – noticed Neestrup’s facet rise to second within the group. They face a crunch tie away at Bayern Munich later this month, earlier than entertaining Galatasaray in what might be a winner-takes-all conflict in December.

Copenhagen’s win over United got here after they narrowly misplaced the reverse fixture 1-0 when Andre Onana saved Jordan Larsson’s last-gasp penalty, however regardless of exacting revenge on United, Neestrup felt his facet have been a lot better on different events.

‘For me as Copenhagen coach, it was by far the weakest efficiency within the group stage to date,’ he mentioned.

FC Copenhagen boss Jacob Neestrup felt his facet’s efficiency of their dramatic 4-3 victory over Manchester United on Wednesday was their weakest show to date within the group levels

Neestrup’s phrases got here regardless of the Danish giants twice preventing again from shedding positions

‘So when you take the image in the present day we perhaps did not deserve three and even one level.

‘But when you take it over 4 rounds then it is vitally very effectively deserved that Copenhagen is in second place as a result of I consider we now have been the second greatest staff, not in the present day, however over 4 video games.’ 

Along with the defeat at Old Trafford, Copenhagen’s first victory within the group got here after they additionally narrowly misplaced 2-1 to Bayern Munich and drew 2-2 away at Galatasaray, that means they’d been concerned in three tightly-fought contests.

Ahead of Wednesday’s conflict, Neestrup had outlined his emotions of injustice after the loss to United again in Manchester final month. 

The 35-year-old had mentioned: ‘For me, it isn’t about hope. For me, it is about robust perception that we will get a end result.

‘The penalty miss within the fifth minute of extra-time was what was it was, however it was a completely equal sport.

‘I used to be a little bit bit stunned about a few of the questions I received after the sport from English journalists by way of that we have been fairly powerful to interrupt down.

‘The speak we had at half-time in our dressing-room was that we thought it was powerful to interrupt the opponent down. In that image I feel the sport over 95 minutes was completely equal.’

Copenhagen exacted revenge on United after they narrowly misplaced the reverse fixture 1-0