Sir Alex: Reds must recover
Sir Alex Ferguson has challenged his players to start another winning streak after the 1-0 FA Cup semi-final defeat to City.
The Reds were beaten by Yaya Toure's goal and any hopes of a comeback receded when Paul Scholes was dismissed with 18 minutes remaining. Sir Alex felt his team paid the price for a 'sloppy' start to the second half but appreciates the need to focus on getting three points from a tough trip to Tyneside in a few days' time.
"It's a major game on Tuesday up at Newcastle," he told MUTV. "It doesn't matter when you play, you know you've got to recover and get on a winning streak again.
"The first 15 minutes after half-time cost us the game," admitted the boss. "Slack moments. Edwin [van der Sar] had a bad kick out and Michael Carrick couldn't hold it and it was a goal.
"From then on, they were defending apart from a couple of counter-attacks. It's disappointing as we should've been ahead in the first half as we were the better team.
"The chance that Dimitar [Berbatov] missed - there was a great save by the keeper but the second chance, from under the bar, if he'd have scored there, I had a feeling whoever scored first would win the match.
"We were a wee bit sloppy and it got them on the counter-attack against us. I think the pitch was slow.
No comments:
Post a Comment