Erik ten Hag, the manager of Manchester United, has come under fire from Peter Schmeichel for his choice to start Anthony Martial instead of Rasmus Hojlund during their 3-3 draw with Galatasaray.

After losing three of their last four Group A matches, Wednesday’s crucial match in Istanbul got off to an incredible start thanks to goals from Bruno Fernandes and Alejandro Garnacho.

Andre Onana will be disappointed to have lost a free kick to Hakim Ziyech, who made an even worse mistake after Scott McTominay scored Manchester United’s third goal.

A crazy encounter concluded 3-3 when the summer signing strangely failed to stop another free-kick from Ziyech, and substitute Kerem Akturkoglu quickly lazer past him.

Man Utd’s loss puts them at the bottom of their pool going into the last round of matches; their main problem has been giving up 14 goals in just five Group A games.

Despite giving up three goals, Schmeichel felt that the Manchester United defense “played really well,” but he criticized Martial for starting ahead of Hojlund.

“I actually think that the back four played really well today. I don’t think they could have done much more,” Schmeichel told CBS Sports.

“I thought they played well, but, again, you can’t argue that the mistakes by the goalkeeper are very, very expensive.

“Every time a goalkeeper makes a mistake it is a goal, it’s a fact of life.

“I think again, when you go back to Sunday, I thought everything worked really, really well. But when you play at this level, every little mistake you make is being penalised and you’ve got to learn that.

“When you’re 2-0 up – and it’s not the first time we’re 2-0 up in this tournament – you kill the game. You make sure the other team can’t get into it.

“You keep the ball, you make sure you don’t make mistakes – and a lot of mistakes were made today.

“And of course you also have to look at players like when Hojlund came off, a lot of the pressure from the very, very front disappeared.

“The guy he [Ten Hag] put in doesn’t do anything, where you had before someone who works really, really hard for the team up front all of a sudden you don’t have that pressure.

“And that gives the other team a lot of opportunities to pass the ball around.

“So there are many, many things you can look at, but, again, if you score this amount of goals you expect to have more than one point.”