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‘Energy was the difference’published at 20:56 BST

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FT: Bayern Munich 2-1 Man Utd (5-3 agg)

Manchester United

Manchester United boss Marc Skinner speaking to Disney+: “If I’m being really honest, we’ve got 45 minutes of really high-level football and the second half, it’s just down to fatigue and tiredness. They’ve not stopped running. They were doing everything they can.

“Bayern rested seven [players] at the weekend and then came into this game fresh. You could see energy was the difference. I’m not going to make excuses, you could see it. We knew how to beat Bayern in the first half and we couldn’t do it quick enough in the second half. That was the difference.

“When you run the legs out, you start making decisions, you open up spaces and Bayern can attack you. Brilliant defending, great saves and to lose it on two set pieces is disappointing which is something attributed to fatigue and concentration.

“The one disappointment I have from this is if we had our freshness and our fit players we could have gone toe-to-toe with them and really changed the second half.

“I’ll never know but what I’ve said to the team is we have three games left in the league and if you win those three games you can experience the Champions League again next year. That’s on us to be able to do that.”

On how much the team have taken from their debut Champions League season: “Nobody had us getting out of the group stage. From our perspective, we as a club need to design latter stage tournament conversations about squad size, experience. We have to do it. We will learn from it.”

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