Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag couldn't fault his players after their Champions League exit.
United had to beat Bayern Munich on Tuesday night and hope that FC Copenhagen and Galatasaray drew in the other game.
With Copenhagen winning and progressing, United finished fourth and are out of Europe entirely.
Post-game, Ten Hag defended his team: We didn't lose today in the Champions League, we lost it before. We have to acknowledge that. I think we've had some good performances but then also we made mistakes, individual errors from players.
In the end, it's not good enough but I think, today, the performance was very good again and we didn't deserve to lose."
He added on their efforts: The team did very good, we were very good in the defending organization, we were very good in the pressing. We had many ball regains, especially at the start of the second half. I think the team very good together and there was good spirit. We won a lot of balls but didn't take benefit from it.
Also we played against a strong side Bayern is a good team and even if they are not in the game, they have individual class to use one moment and unfortunately, it happened."