Euro Blues For United As City Victory Not Enough

Manchester United crashed out of the Champions League with a 2-1 defeat to Basel in Switzerland as goals from Marco Streller and Alex Frei sent the hosts into the last 16.
Needing just one point to qualify for the knock-out stages, United were the dominant side throughout but paid dearly for two lapses in concentration.
With the United defence at sixes and sevens, Streller hooked home the opener from 10 yards after keeper David De Gea could only deflect Xherdan Shaqiri's ninth minute cross.
And Shaqiri was also the provider six minutes from time when a curling cross was missed by the entire visiting defence and Frei tapped in the second goal at the far post.
United should have levelled after half-an-hour when Wayne Rooney inexpicably missed an open goal as he failed to make contact with Nani's curling cross - when just two yards out.
Rooney also shot straight at keeper Yann Sommer on 34 and, early in the second half, the United striker curled inches wide after finding space in the Basel box.
De Gea kept United interested by brilliantly tipping an Alex Frei free-kick over in the 52nd minute before Markus Steinhoefer volleyed a Nani cross against his own bar on the hour mark but the visitors were left frustrated once again.
Rooney then nodded over from close range before United pulled a goal back on 89 when a Phil Jones header crept over the line, after his first headed attempt had rebounded off the bar.
Yet, despite creating the bulk of the chances, last year's runners-up will have to settle for life in the Europa League.
Manchester City's debut Champions League campaign ended at the group stage as a 2-0 victory over Bayern Munich proved irrelevant.
Goals from David Silva (37) and Yaya Toure (52) against a makeshift Bayern kept up City's end of the bargain, but Napoli held their nerve to win at Villarreal and secure Group A's second spot.
The upshot is Europe's cash-rich pretenders will contest the continent's second competition come the spring, but City had nothing to reproach themselves for on the night.
Sergio Aguero had already been thwarted by Jerome Boateng's athletic goal-line clearance by the time Silva took Edin Dzeko's flick in his stride and swiped home sweetly from 20 yards.
And when Toure's toe-poke finished off a lovely move involving Silva and Dzeko Eastlands was rocking, but news soon filtered through of Napoli's two second-half strikes in Spain.
Gareth Barry and Samir Nasri were close to enhancing City's lead from distance, but by that stage the game was up.