Edwin Rues Exit

Edwin van der Sar felt United were decidedly unfortunate to exit the Champions League at the hands of Bayern Munich.

The Dutchman admitted the Reds' last-gasp first-leg defeat in the Allianz Arena ultimately cost United the tie, as a sterling show at Old Trafford ultimately yielded no reward.

"I think we deserved to go through," he told MUTV. "They got a lucky goal in the last minute last week, today we had 10 men and even then they didn't create many chances - it had to be a wonder goal to kick us out."

United's cause was severely hampered by the 50th-minute dismissal of Rafael, and van der Sar felt the Brazilian's fate was sealed by Bayern's hounding of referee Nicola Rizzoli.

"Everybody knows who has the cards and they're very good at that," he said. "Obviously the referee wasn't going to do it, I think they put some pressure on him and he got the card out.

"If it's 11 v 11 they have to come back to score the second one, and on the counter or even with the way we pressed them we would probably have got more chances."