​Manchester United's Spanish midfielder Juan Mata has opined that Jose Mourinho's team's shock defeat against Championship side Bristol City in the Carabao Cup should not be termed as a tragedy.





Korey Smith's last-gasp goal meant that United missed out on a semi-final clash against their local rivals Manchester City. However Mata has a different opinion to the defeat.





Speaking to ​Sky Sports, Mata said, "When you play for a club like Manchester United every defeat is a massive blow for everyone. For the fans, for you but especially for us. We suffer when we don't win because there's such a high standard in this football club to try and win every game."





Highlighting that winning and losing is a part of sport, he continued, "But we need to understand that defeat is part of sport and part of football and it can happen so it's not a tragedy."





"It's not good at all, but we need to move on and accept it as a part of football and keep moving."@juanmata8 is urging his team-mates to not dwell on their shock Carabao Cup loss to @bcfctweets 👉 https://t.co/ql8EZuB4uI pic.twitter.com/Ez1i5nQyb5 — Sky Sports PL (@SkySportsPL) December 21, 2017





The Spaniard then stated that his team have to be consistent from now on as he said, "It's not good at all, but we need to move on and accept it as a part of football and keep moving. Obvously we would like to win every single game and we would like to try to do so until the end of the season."





Talking up winning the FA Cup this season, Mata said as he concluded, "Hopefully we can still go to Wembley in the FA Cup, we are playing in the Champions League where we play Seville and there's still many games to go."





Manchester United travel to the King Power Stadium to take on former Premier League champions Leicester City on Saturday as they look to get back to winning ways ahead of the crazy schedule ahead.

