After Manchester United’s disastrous loss to Galatasaray in the Champions League on Tuesday night, Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand were incensed. The Red Devils were humiliated by their Turkish opponents at home, and Mauro Icardi scored in extra time to win the game 3-2 after missing a penalty attempt minutes earlier.

After 17 minutes, Wilfried Zaha tied the score against his former team after Rasmus Hojlund had given United the lead with his first Old Trafford goal. Just after the hour mark, Hojlund scored again, burrowing into the opposing area from the midway point and blasting home from close range.

Following Andre Onana’s obvious mistake, the visitors went on to draw even again thanks to Kerem Akturkoglu. Icardi then missed from the ensuing penalty spot. With only nine minutes left, the former Inter Milan striker made up for his earlier error by scooping the ball into the corner after the hosts had lost focus.

When the game ended, Scholes and Ferdinand, who were serving as TNT Sports pundits at Old Trafford, felt embarrassed. As all three players failed to stop Akturkoglu from scoring Galatasaray’s second goal of the evening, the former singled out Sofyan Amrabat, Raphael Varane, and Victor Lindelof for more criticism.

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Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand were both furious with United’s performance against Galatasaray

“Amrabat not in his favoured position but he just gets spun, the lad turns him around,” reflected Scholes.

“I don’t know where the hell Varane is going, Lindelof just looks lost in the middle, and they were so open in the middle of that defensive area.”

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Scholes went on to question Marcus Rashford’s ability to make the right attacking decisions, with the England ace choosing to square the ball to Bruno Fernandes rather than shooting at one stage when he was clean through on goal.

The Red Devils took the lead on two occasions but ended up slipping to a surprise defeat

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In the position facing goalkeeper Muslera, Rashford decided not to finish. Instead, Rashford passed the ball across to Bruno Fernandes. However, the pass lacked power and the opponent’s defender promptly blocked it.

“I think the Marcus Rashford of last season scores here, there’s no doubt about it because he had confidence then,” added Scholes.

“It’s a good pass from [Christian] Eriksen, who had a good second half, but I saw Marcus coming in and he’s always thinking about Fernandes but the trouble is he’s not actually thinking about how quick the right-back is behind him.”

Ferdinand, meanwhile, slammed United’s defenders for switching off immediately after the Red Devils had taken the lead on not one, but two occasions. He said: “As a kid, you’re told that you’re the most vulnerable after just scoring and that happened twice tonight, we fell asleep.

“At times, it looked far too easy and they went through us like a hot knife through butter and it’s embarrassing. This is the Champions League, it’s not school football or anything. The lack of positional awareness, spacial awareness. At this level you’ll be punished for that and they were tonight.”

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