The Old Trafford boss was not pleased with his side's quality as they were dumped out of the FA Cup with a 2-1 loss to Wolves
Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has called his club's 2-1 loss to Wolves "a big step backwards" after the Old Trafford outfit was dumped out of the FA Cup at the quarter-final stage on Saturday.
After the match the 46-year-old admitted his disappointment at how his side performed on the night.
"We started too slowly and played into their hands," he told BBC Sport. "Our possession wasn't bright enough and quick enough, so it's disappointing.
"I didn't think we had enough quality in the last third, enough combination play.
We had decent dominance with the ball in the first half but that doesn't help if you give the ball away and they can counter.
"This was a big step backwards, mainly because of the quality of the possession and the passing."
Manchester United have now lost back-to-back matches for the first time under Solskjaer, who also tasted defeat at the hands of Arsenal in the Premier League last Sunday.
The club will now get a bit of time to recover, with the international break on tap and their next match not coming until March 30 against Watford.
"Some of the players go away with the national teams and they'll enjoy the break," Solskjaer said. "We've got to go again.
"We've had a great run and now we've had two defeats. Against Arsenal we just couldn't score and today was poor - the poorest we've played.
"I'm here until the summer, we've got loads to play for in the league and the Champions League."
AlexSample3
87
Ole should go learn how to sub,when to sub and whom to sub... I think his personal feelings for player has really hurt united in both games... he should have sub Pogba and bring on Mata,remove matic and bring on Mctominay and then Perreirra....its really a bad night for United... I think united only need to finish In top 4 dis season unless d job won't be given to Mr Ole, cos our hope of silver ware this season is losing already,Barca won't be easy, never expect a win but only miracle and God choice will help united.... Martial is so lazy, why Pogba gives d ball away easily, and lindelof shld have do something to clear d ball away....am fed up!! #Ggmu#
rota2903
79
I'm a Chelsea fan but I do believe that Solskjaer deserved to be given full contract as manager of Man Utd. I can see the old Fergie's DNA style in Man Utd nowaday when it's managed by Solskjaer. Plus, the FA Cup is a competition that has always been a hard competition. Clubs like Wolves always aims for this kind of trophy because objectively, it is achievable. It's different when playing in the Premier League where teams have to be ready week in week out for matches.
Konabdkl
68
Only trophy which remains for MU to obtain. I'd non other than the ECL cup.Now that we have been eliminated in the FA Cup and we are very uncertain to be among the four synonym of a place in ECL tournament next year,Ole and the entire team must concentrate on the match against Barcelona. We must work very very hard.Almost all the players must be replace by the young academy graduates.Ole must begin their preparations now.He must already choose his squad for the match and begin an intense training.Any player who is not performing highly in training must be discarded even if he is Pogba,Martial or De Gae.Make drastic changes in the team and MU may beat Barcelona
Keecertyz
63
Why people are so on grateful because he lost, what appended to all those that he has been winning,any coach can lose anytime and isn't even like manchester united got quality players and still he still manage them to win many games,this game will also help him to know who to trust,united needs a totally transformed,i totally believed that ole will transform the team if he can be supported with funding every window transfers,he has already saw the weak points of the team but who can replace the gap, that why he was talking about quality attacking and wingers we even don't have finishers,give him a totally chance,man city gave gadiola chance and he changed his squad how he wanted it look at city now one of the best team in the world?
itisgaya
34
I see a lot of people saying trash like ole was scared to bench pogba,martial and matic but that is the most ridiculous accusation you could levy against the manager. We all know that Pogba and martial can each win a game by themselves and you are wondering why the coach being two goals down decided against benching his best attacking options. This just goes to show that some so called fans don't even understand the game they claim to follow. Now it is true that the play of these three was sub par yesterday, but that doesn't mean that you bench your stars out of panic or anger. As Pele once said "it only takes a second to score a goal everything before that is merely preamble".
Vipacdknot
34
tactically ogs is a mess. I think we should appoint Mike phelan as the next boss. I still don't understand why Phil Jones contract has been renewed. smalling is a complete mess for always grabbing players. why were martial and lindegard so long on he pitch. ogs was not even on the technical area to put pressure inn the players. instead he was sitting and watching the match except for the last 14 mins when he decided to make some changes in the team very poor performance by ogs. ogs lacks character like klopp. I think man Utd should appoint conte just to manage the high earning star players like pogba and martial.