Ander Herrera confident Manchester United can overturn Paris Saint-Germain deficit in Champions League

Ander Herrera insists Manchester United can still reach the Champions League quarter-finals despite their 2-0 first leg defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.

Goals from Presnel Kimpembe and Kylian Mbappe gave PSG a crucial advantage to take into the second leg of their last-16 tie on March 6.

Paul Pogba’s second yellow card in the latter stages of the game compounded a miserable Tuesday night for United, whose unbeaten 11-game run under interim boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer came to an end.

“I think this result is not going to hurt us because of the way we lost,” said United midfielder Herrera.

“If you lose being worse than the opponent, that could hurt us. But I think until the corner I couldn’t say we were better (but) the game was under control.

“They were not creating too many problems, we neither but 0-0 could have been an OK result because everything would be open.

“Now it is more difficult for us, but we have good examples (of getting good away wins).”

The Red Devils have secured impressive away victories over Juventus, Arsenal and Tottenham this season.

Those results are ones that will give United belief heading to the French capital for the return leg.

“I think the game was tight until the first goal,” added Herrera.

“We couldn’t say we were the better team, but they were not better than us either.

“So, it’s difficult because against these kind of teams, such good teams, you don’t want to concede goals from corners.

“They didn’t create in the first 60-65 minutes. I couldn’t say any chance from open play. The two chances they had were offside, so we couldn’t say they created any chance.

“But after the goal they could play counter attack. They have very quick players, they couldn’t build from the back. We were pressing quite good, so after the goal they were finding those gaps that they couldn’t find in the first half.

“But this is football. Something to learn (from). We can’t concede goals from set pieces against these kind of teams because everything turns much, much (more) difficult, much harder.

“So now we have good examples. We won away against Tottenham, we won against Arsenal.

“They are teams that are as good as PSG, so we will go there to try and make it difficult for them.”

The difficult games keep on coming for United, who travel to Chelsea in the FA Cup fifth round on Monday.