 All right, welcome back to the Sportsmax Zone. We're kicking off the show with football. Matchday 6 on the UEFA Champions League got on the way early on Tuesday, with eight fixtures slated to take place. At Old Trafford, Manchester United hosted German champion Bayern Munich in what was a must-win match for the Red Devils if they were to stand a chance of progressing to the knockout rounds for next year. Let's take a look now at how it unfolded. Bayern Munich 11 times in a row. Kermin keeps it going. Guretska wouldn't come to Muller. It has come to Kermin and in front of the Strefford end. Had by far the better of it. Harry Kane with 22 goals, but he's just provided a really good assist with the little poke here. That's lovely for Bayern's number nine and Komen. Manchester United's fate about to be confirmed by the full-time whistle from the Norwegian official here. It ends with a wimper for Eric Tenhaag and Manchester United. And it ends with a chorus of boos for the Manchester United manager. Four Champions League group stage defeats. That has never happened in the proud history of this football club. The lowest ever Champions League group points tally. All right, Bayern Munich of course, the ceiling that win and topping the entire group. So team of course Manchester United are suffering massive humiliation on being dumped out of Europe. But we have to start by talking about the winners, Bayern Munich. I think it's fitting that we do that. Komen getting the goal, the assist from Harry Kane, well-deserved Bayern Munich. Yeah, beautiful assist from Harry Kane as well. Didn't get many chances today on his return to England. But yeah, impressive, involved in the goal. Thoroughly professional performance coming from Bayern Munich. They dominated the contest in almost every department of the game. But I guess you would have to say Lansen Mariah. It was very much expected because this is a depleted Manchester United team. Yes, Manchester United have not been good, but it does not help when you don't have so many of your first choice players. And you look at today, for example, Antoine Marciel, Marcus Rashford, both out of the squad completely because of illness. Then at halftime, the coach forced to make two substitutions. Luke Shaw taken off, seemingly because of injury as well. Harry Maguire replaced by Johnny Evans and Juan Bissaca coming on. So really tough for Manchester United. And when you have all those injury concerns dealing with, it can be difficult to put together quality performances, especially with consistency. And that's what we've seen from Manchester United. There are days when they have been pretty decent, and then there are other days when they have been done right horrible. Today was a tough day, but you have to give a lot of credit to Bayern Munich as well because they were quite professional in the way they went about business and they ensured that they got the job done. In any case, it wouldn't have mattered even if Manchester United had won because FC Copenhagen beat Galatasaray, and that's all they needed to do to put their place in the last 16. Yeah, Bayern Munich are a very solid team. You know, you have frontmen like Harry Kane, Musiala and Coleman, who got the winning goal today. You have to be satisfied as a Bayern Munich fan with the offensive potency of your team. And both teams had come off domestic losses over the weekend. Eintracht Frankfurt defeating Bayern Munich heavily, 5-1 I think the score was. So, Bayern Munich rebound immediately, and Manchester United unable to rebound from their weekend woes in England. So, not an unexpected result, as Ricardo just pointed out, but really top period here for Manchester United. Yeah, and a terrific performance as well by Oper McCona for Bayern Munich. He was brilliant in defence. Every single time he had a duel with Hoiland, he came out on top, and Hoiland just never got the space or room to have any real forward thrust for Manchester United, similar as well for Garnaccio when he was on the field. Bayern Munich just really too good for this Manchester United team. At one point, the commentator referenced the first game that they played in the group, where Bayern Munich won by four goals to three, and he suggested that that scoreline was flattering to Manchester United. In my opinion, this one-nil scoreline was even more flattering to Manchester United, because it was nowhere as close as the one-nil scoreline suggests. Yeah, and they saw a comment on the BBC saying that, you know, you know, the reports where different people comment. So it's not an official BBC report, but a different analyst than pass footballers and everybody comment. They said that Manchester United is going backwards under Eric Tenhack, and I feel like now it is necessary that we have this discussion. Because for me, team, for some time Manchester United has been struggling, we already accepted that. But I feel like this is the lowest of lows that you could hit, because you're out of the Champions League, Ricardo. You're not even competing, you're not even putting a fight, and you're not only out of the Champions League, you're dumped out at the bottom of the table. How do I respond to that? Because I think it has become so easy to say the court should go, and that's the solution to everything. Is that going to be the solution for the issues that Manchester United has at the moment? I am not sure. I am honestly not sure, Lance and Mariah. For me, the biggest issue was that Manchester United did not shop well enough in the summer transfer window. If you can point to a player that has come into this Manchester United setup, who has improved the team in any way, you're a great man, because I can't see any. I can't see any player who came in in the summer transfer window, who has improved this Manchester United team. And for me, that is the biggest issue with Manchester United. And when you add to that the number of injuries, the number of players who are out injured, then you get what you have known, a team that is consistently inconsistent and is unable to deliver quality performances consistently throughout the course of the season. In fact, what we've seen in the Champions League is Manchester United being unable to maintain their best level for the duration of a game. Forget from game to game, but even within games, as the commentator pointed out, for the first time, or Manchester United is the first team to have scored three goals in what? Three group matches of the Champions League and did not win any? For me, that tells you a lot about what you need to know about what Manchester United is going through at the moment. But I'm not sure that the easy fix is to say, well, get rid of the coach. It may be, but I'm genuinely not sure. I'm not convinced either, because since Sir Alex Ferguson left, we've had some top coaches going to Manchester United. We? Yes. Did I say something wrong? No, Lancy. Sorry, continue, Lancy, I'm sorry. I just want to make the point that outstanding, highly respected coaches have gone to Manchester United, including the Special One and Louis van Allen and so on. These are world-rated coaches and they haven't made a significant impact on the team. Certainly nowhere near where Sir Alex Ferguson left it. So the problem is deeper, in my opinion, than the coach. And I take the point as well that because of the injury woes at the moment, there is very little that Ten Hat can do in this period for Manchester United. Yeah, and maybe it is that the players have to take a lot of the blame as well. When you look at a number of the senior players where they just haven't been good enough, you think about Bruno Fernandez, for example, and the type of quality he brought to the Manchester United set up when he just came. He's been a shadow of himself, in my opinion. Marcus Rashford has been horrible this season. So the players with the experience have not turned up for Manchester United and so you have what you have now. Yeah, well let's focus on the winners. In one of the days early Arsenal, they already were guaranteed a top spot in their group. They then travelled to the Netherlands to take on current Dutch top flight leaders, PSV Eindhoven. Let's take a look at the highlights. So it's Arsenal in a changed trip. Get us underway at PSV Stadion, Georginio. Arsenal now starting to up the tempo and really freeze out their opponents. El Nene, here's Nelson, Cedric. Back to Reese Nelson. Finds Nketya, who finds the corner. Really good build up between Nelson and Cedric. And then Ketya took this so confidently through the legs of Andre Romalo. Backi Oko trying to work the space. Batesen sends it wide, threads it through for Pepi. Batesen, brilliant goal. Tilma has shown some really good ability on the ball. Finding the space, threading it through. It was missed by Saliba and here's Havertz. Cedric digs out the cross towards Nketya. Side netting. All right, Arsenal emphatic in their return to Europe's Premier League competition. And they were able to comfortably top group B despite the draw today. Miquela Urqueta made approximately eight changes in his team today. So you get the sense that, you know, in his mind the job was done and dusted. He just needed to play his squad. And he gave some other players opportunities. So for me, I'm not even going to judge Arsenal too hard on this performance. They did what they had to do. They got the points. They topped the group, job done for now. Yeah, when you're in a position of comfort and you can rest players and rotate players and give players that haven't had a lot of playing time and opportunity. At this stage, it is always a plus for a coach. So Arsenal, apart from their stutter in early October when Lawns beat them by two goals to one, they haven't done much wrong here in the group stages. And they've won the group emphatically. And Arsenal are looking pretty solid on the current run. Yeah, and an excellent finish here from Eddie Nketya. I think he's had a decent season. His first Champions League goal, by the way, and that was beautifully taken, fabulously placed by Nketya. Five goals in the Premier League, Lancen, Mariah, and he gets on the Champions League scoreboard as well. But I think he would be delighted with this finish, just really, really well taken. Yeah, I have to say though, with the changes that Mikyel Arteta made, Arsenal looked a shadow of themselves. They look really, really sluggish on the ball and all that. You know, so, but as we said at the top of this segment and while introducing it, we can't really judge him because of course he was just utilizing different players and playing around with the pieces that he has. But for me, if this was the original Arsenal squad, not at all. Yeah, but it's not. When you've qualified already for the next stage of the competition, it's about giving experience to as many players as possible. It is a long season and the other part of it is ensuring that your first-choice players are not overworked in any way. Remember, Arsenal, they're trying to win the English Premier League. They're looking to go deep in Europe, in the Champions League. And so every opportunity you get to rest your first-choice players, you will want to do that. And they also have a pretty busy December into January period coming up as well in the Premier League. So it's important that you keep your front-line players as fresh as possible. The English teams, all of them, who play in the Champions League, and well, just English Premier League teams in general, have a pretty busy December going into January because a lot of the other European top-flight leagues take a break for Christmas. In England, they don't. And there's been a constant complaint from the managers in England that Christmas weekend to the new year is very hectic for them. So when they resume the UEFA Champions League football in the new year early, they have to ensure that their players would have rested enough if you have the opportunity to do that so that you can continue your Champions League program. Yeah, PSV, Ein Hoeven, of course, second in that group B, just on the Arsenal on nine points. So let's take a look now at the other results on the day. What do we have? Okay, so we just spoke to you about that one-all draw between PSV and Arsenal. Lens overcoming Sevilla to one, the Bayern Munich win against Manchester United. One goal for the win for Copenhagen against Galatasaray. No goals in the draw between Inter Milan and Real Sociedad. Benfica, three goals to beat Red Bull Salzburg. What about that three-two win for Real Madrid against Union Berlin? And Napoli, a two-nil win against Sporting Braga. All right, well, matchday six concludes on Wednesday with the following fixtures. So we have Red Star Belgrade up against Manchester City defending champions Manchester City. RB Leipzig will play young boys, Antwerp will be seeing Barcelona, Atlético Madrid play Lazio, Celtic, they face Feyenoord, Dortmund up against PSG, FC Porto will be seeing Shakhtar, Rotoniesk, Newcastle, they play AC Milan. And remember, you can catch all the action on Champions League right here on your home of champions. Quick break, we'll be right back. Don't go anywhere.