Manchester United kicked off their Champions League match in Italy on Wednesday evening in the worst possible way, finding themselves down a goal just two minutes into the game.
Another Lightning Fast Goal Against Them
It was brutal out there in Como, raining, and United just couldn’t hold. Nico Paz hit a superb curling strike that found the back of the net, putting them behind almost before the whistle truly died down. It’s a gut punch, right? Two minutes. That’s all it took for them to be chasing the game.
This isn’t a New Problem
What’s really frustrating here is that this isn’t some one-off. The team clearly didn’t learn anything from a similarly slow start against Atlético de Madrid last week in another continental fixture. And because of these back-to-back blunders, they’ve now etched their name into some seriously unwanted history. No other English team has ever started successive continental fixtures this badly. Think about that for a second. *No other English team.*
It’s an embarrassing record to hold, and it shows a pattern of starting these huge European games totally flat. They’ve gotta figure out how to wake up before the whistle, or this ‘unwanted history’ is just gonna keep piling up.
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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