Fergie believes that Manchester United could have beaten Barcelona in the champions league final if Darren Fletcher. IF fergie believes that difference between being thoroughly outplayed and dominated and winning the game yesterday was Darren Fletcher then he doesn’t know as much about football as I would have thought.
Fergie seems to forget that he already had players with limited skills but an abundance of heart and brawn on the pitch – Anderson, Ji Sun Park, John O’Shea, Michael Carrick – he couldn’t have possibly competed fairly with Barcelona if they brought on another player who is only looks half decent because he is surrounded with luxury articles like Rooney and Ronaldo.
When or how did Nemanja Vidic become Pascal Cygan? When did he become as slow as a reversing articulated lorry? In more than two games this season he has been exposed but to do it at this level is plain criminal.
Man U did not become a poor team over night but something went wrong which might include just being scared of the opposition. It happened against Real Madrid with the whole team including Roy keane and Paul Scholes freezing up against Zinedine Zidane, Redondo and Ronaldo (the original).
But how does a team with such experience not be able to compete; passing the ball to a team mate cannot be that difficult unless you are Michael Carrick and co in midfield last night. And where was the technical nous & expertise of Guus Hiddink who nullified the Barcelona threat for more than 180 minutes in the semi finals.
In the absence of three quarters of their back four I expected that Man Utd would have made it more of a game. The left back was 35 year Sylvinho but he wasn’t disturbed too much yesterday and he defending against Cristiano Ronaldo the only white shirted player who left Rome with any pride.
Man Utd will be back and I guarantee that there will be an English side in the finals next year
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