Scott McTominay found himself in a state of disbelief after Manchester United were beaten by Wolves on Tuesday night.
The Scotland international opened his United account with a sweet early strike to give Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's men the lead but Diogo Jota's equaliser followed by Chris Smalling's second-half own-goal ensured the Reds left Molineux empty-handed.
“It was a strange night,” said McTominay. “I was sat with the boys in the changing room thinking: ‘How have we not won that game?’ But goals change games and we were so unfortunate tonight.
“We played so well in the first half an hour and we didn’t quite react as well to their goal as we normally would do. For the first hour we were in good nick. We were looking forward, we had so many chances, and the game just changed so quick.”
Discussing his goal, he said: “It’s so important for you to get off and running for your football club.
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“You watch players like [Paul] Scholes and [Michael] Carrick and midfield players like that coming through and that’s who you want to emulate. But the boys are gutted and it was a tough one to take tonight.“
United went down to 10 men when Ashley Young was shown a second yellow card and McTominay believes that effected the team's intensity.
“I thought we handled it quite well, but it’s never easy to go down to 10 men and they can switch the ball and keep it,” he added.
“It was difficult to get pressure on the ball like we did in the first 25 minutes. I did think we started so well tonight and our intentions were clear.
"The way we set out to press them, and they were panicking in the first half whenever they got the ball. It’s a difficult one to take, but one we’ll reflect on and come back better [for] in the future.”
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