Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes confronted Victor Lindelof after Sevilla scored their winning goal through Luuk de Jong. The Red Devils suffered their third semi-final exit of the season and the Portuguese was furious with his team-mate.
Lindelof got himself in a bad position allowing de Jong to tap home past a helpless David De Gea.
But after the match Fernandes insisted it was a natural reaction in such a high pressure situation.
He said on BT Sport: “It’s normal when you concede. It’s not about me or Victor. What happened between me and Victor is normal.
“It will happen many more times in football. We need to see the mistakes everybody did and improve.”
Meanwhile, United captain believed the defeat was unacceptable even if the best team did end up losing in the Europa League semi-final.
He said: “It’s difficult. The boys are devastated. We created numerous chances. The best team lost. They punished us for missing chances. They didn’t make many chances to be honest.
“We conceded from two crosses which is not good enough.We worked our socks off and deserved to win and get through. We fell short in a semi-final for the third time this year.
“We have a good group of lads. Losing is not acceptable. Getting to semi-finals isn’t acceptable. We have to take it to the next step.
“Improvement made this year is massive. We played a good Sevilla team – another day we win it. Losing is not acceptable for this club.
On winning silverware he added: “It’ll happen soon. We want to win it as soon as possible. If we take another giant step next season we’ll improve again.
“Tonight we turned up and the best team lost. Perhaps that bit of inexperience cost us – we shouldn’t have conceded that second goal.”
Sevilla will face either Inter Milan or Shakhtar Donetsk in the Europa League final next Friday.