Ole excited with excellent youngsters in Astana defeat
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Manchester United lost to Astana in a lowly Europa League tie that matterered little to anyone.

The United outfit which was full of youngsters and saw their boss give full debut to three teenagers and overall debut to six from the academy lost 2-1.

However, the result was of little consequence as they have already qualified for the next round, the Round of 32 in the Europa League.

To Ole however, what mattered was the performance of the young lads, many of whom dawned the Red Devils jersey for the first time in their career. 

Their performance was very good,” he said.

“At times we were excellent and short spells we let them push us back and that cost us in the end because it was a big 10 minute spell they had in the second half and you could see they were growing in the game that’s when you want these boys to learn from this and maybe someone stay down or get organised.

But we had chances ourselves and some excellent debuts.”

Asked if it was a learning experience, Solskjaer added: “You’ve got to put them on the pitch before you know if they’re good enough. The full debuts I thought all three were excellent.”

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