Manchester United lost 1-0 at home to Barcelona in the Champions League on Wednesday, leaving them in a precarious position.
2018/2019 UEFA Champions League
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Match Report
Barcelona took a big step towards their first Champions League semi-final in four years as they claimed a slender 1-0 win away to Manchester United despite a thoroughly underwhelming performance.
Ernesto Valverde's men were far from their best, with Lionel Messi uncharacteristically quiet, though United failed to make the most of their periods of superiority and must win at Camp Nou if they are to progress any further in the competition.
Barca's positive start saw them produce the only goal, the unfortunate Luke Shaw deflecting a Luis Suarez header into his own net, though United looked bright for the remainder of the first half.
Although that pattern of play resumed after the interval, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side struggled to craft meaningful chances and, as sloppy as Barca were, they successfully held on to a crucial away win.
Match Events
5' CHANCE! Rashford's free-kick goes wide
Rashford hits the free-kick well but it arrows wide of the Barcelona target.
12' OWN GOAL! Man Utd 0-1 Barcelona (Shaw)
Messi chips the ball to the back post and Suarez nods it back across goal. The ex-Liverpool striker wheels away to celebrate but the final touch came off Shaw so that will surely be an own goal.
Suarez' celebrations are initially cut short as the offside flag went up, but a VAR check shows that he was just about onside.
30' Penalty shout as McTominay tackled down in the box
McTominay cuts inside Pique in the box and there is a little bit of contact from the ex-United defender on the current United star. The referee waves the appeals away and VAR will not be used to check the decision.
31' Messi left bleeding after a collision with Smalling
There was no malice from Smalling when catching Messi, but he has left the superstar forward in quite a bad way. There is blood pouring from Messi's nose and he will require some patching up before re-entering the field.
36' Amazing save from De Gea!
Smalling fails to deal with a bouncing ball and Suarez gets on the end of it. After holding it up he tees up Coutinho, whose powerful shot is kept out by De Gea's leg.
64' CHANCE! Suarez fires into the side-netting
Semedo plays a nice little ball in behind for Suarez to latch on to. The striker looks for the near post, rather than going across De Gea, and he can only pick out the side-netting.
66' SAVE! De Gea denies Alba's shot
Alba is slipped in down the left and De Gea makes the save down low with his feet. United could do with making a change as they have lost their rhythm.
83' NEARLY! Messi's free-kick saved by De Gea!
Messi's free-kick goes through the wall. De Gea manages to watch the ball all the way, despite a slight deflection on its way through, to make a routine save down the middle.