And with that, I’m off. Here’s Jamie Jackson’s match report again. Bye!

Here are some snippets from Michael Carrick’s post-match interview:

double quotation mark It was more than disappointing. I think everybody’s got to take responsibility for that. I’ll take responsibility for the overall team and performance, it stops with me and I’m fine with that. But as a supporter of this football club, to see a performance like that is unacceptable, I have to say.

I’ll look at what we’ve done. It’s the motivation and the purpose and the intensity of a game of football that you have to bring. We didn’t bring that today. You can’t choose when you want to perform or you don’t, when you give absolutely everything and when perhaps you don’t.

I care an unbelievable amount about the supporters. They’re the heartbeat of this football club and always will be. I’ve got to apologise for the performance. Everything they’ve done to get here tonight, for them to watch that performance tonight, I feel for them.

Tonight’s not about me. It’s about digesting the game, and how it went. That’s the most important thing right now.

Thankfully we can rely on Jamie Jackson, who is lakeside for us tonight. And here is his match report!

In sight of the Alps, a boat ride from George Clooney’s villa, Manchester United will hope, in what has been a terrible start to the season, that things do not get any worse.

They can’t – for the team’s prospects, and Michael Carrick’s job security, because witnessed here by Lake Como was a humiliation of the three-times European champions by Cesc Fàbregas’s competition debutants, as United suffered their worst defeat in continental football since 1994.

By 57 minutes this was over, as Como were 3-0 ahead, and Nico Paz had destroyed Carrick’s men with a scintillating display featuring two goals and the assist for Tasos Douvikas’s strike.

Much more here:

62 mins: Amad has been bright since he came on at half-time. He’s at the heart of a United attack but it ends with a blind cross, and a clearance. “Watching United at the moment, they look like a side completely in limbo, unable to move on,” writes Paul Flint. “The players surely know that Carrick is going sooner rather than later, and must be wondering about their futures. It doesn’t encourage in-game focus, however much they may be paid.”

Just one goal, and that from a wonderful shot from outside the area, does not really reflect what has not been a tightly-contested game. United had one good chance, after just a couple of minutes, and even that came after some terrible ball control from Diogo Dalot and a lucky bounce off Perrone, for whom Dalot’s inability to control a football had been not so much unpredictable as unimaginable. I’m not sure what Uefa classify as an “attack” but Como have had 16 of them, and United five.