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David De Gea<\/strong><\/p>\n David De Gea has admitted Manchester United are \u201cfar away\u201d from challenging the Premier League and Champions League after being eliminated from Europe by Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n Atletico defeated United 1-0 at Old Trafford as the La Liga side advanced 2-1 on aggregate and into the Champions League quarterfinals. The loss condemns United to another year without a trophy after last lifting silverware in 2017, and De Gea accepted it will go down as a \u201cbad year.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to describe with words how I feel, how we feel,\u201d said De Gea. \u201cIt\u2019s another tough moment for us. It is too many years without any trophies.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think we need to be clear, we want to achieve good things, fight for trophies, we don\u2019t just want to play for the top four, and be there, so we need much more from everyone because this club is too big for where we are now.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe are far from fighting for the Premier League and Champions League. We need much more from everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n United interim manager, Ralf Rangnick, was left to rue referee Slavko Vincic\u2019s decision not to award a foul on Anthony Elanga in the build up to Atletico\u2019s goal, scored by Renan Lodi in the 4st minute. The German was also critical of what he branded the Spanish side\u2019s \u201ctime-wasting antics\u201d during the second half as Atletico held on to book their place in the last eight.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe it was a foul on Anthony Elanga, the referee and linesman didn\u2019t see it that way,\u201d said Rangnick.<\/p>\n \u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have been 1-0 down at half-time, we were the better team in the first half.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s important to score first, and even more so against a team like Atletico. In the second half, I don\u2019t know if the game was played for more than two minutes without being interrupted with someone lying on the floor.<\/p>\n \u201cThere were some curious refereeing decisions, I wouldn\u2019t necessarily say decisive. The referee made it pretty easy for Atletico to do their time-wasting antics and it didn\u2019t make it any easier for us.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David De Gea David De Gea has admitted Manchester United are \u201cfar away\u201d from challenging the Premier League and Champions League after being eliminated from Europe by Atletico Madrid. Atletico defeated United 1-0 at Old Trafford as the La Liga side advanced 2-1 on aggregate and into the Champions League quarterfinals. The loss condemns United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1024431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[697,4710],"class_list":["post-1024430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-man","tag-trophies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}