There’s no need to panic, says Solskjaer

OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER insists there is no reason to panic following his first defeat as Manchester United’s interim manager and has backed his players to bounce back in Monday’s FA Cup fifth-round tie at Chelsea. The 2-0 Champions League loss at Old Trafford to Paris SaintGermain on Tuesday night was all the more painful for Solskjaer because Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard sustained injuries that will keep them out of action for between two and three weeks. However, the United boss said: ‘You don’t panic because you’ve lost a game. You don’t change everything. It doesn’t change the mind-set at all. ‘I hate losing games, the boys hate it. They’ve been down, but there’s no point dwelling on it. ‘There are big games with good teams coming up and we need to dust ourselves down. You’ve got to bounce back at this club. You always have challenges and away against Chelsea is tough. ‘We know there was a spell against PSG — seven or eight minutes — when we lost our way. Apart from that, we weren’t too bad.’ Solskjaer was reminded that United beat Chelsea away in the quarter-final en route to winning the FA Cup — and Treble — in 1999. ‘We beat Arsenal and Liverpool as well,’ he added. ‘We did it the hard way then and we will have to do it the hard way this year.’ Romelu Lukaku and Alexis Sanchez are expected to play in the absence of Martial and Lingard, while attacking midfielder Angel Gomes, 18, and winger Tahith Chong, 19, could also be named in the travelling squad.