The English midfielder was pleased with http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Turkey-c3026.
Former Blackburn http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson.
With qualification to the knock-out rounds all but wrapped up, the tactician opted for youngsters in the starting eleven and elected to take a gamble on Jones’ fitness, which has been steadily improving ever since the player returned to training.
Although Scott Wootton was in the squad, Ferguson deemed the occasion too big for his underdeveloped talents and instead chose http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michael-Carrick-c25282 to partner his International teammate at the Turk Telecom Arena.
Throughout the ninety minutes, Carrick and Jones defended comfortably and mostly restricted Galatasaray to shots from outside the box. However, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Anders-Lindegaard-c5553 in the second half.
However, the goal was not really the backline’s fault, as http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Darren-Fletcher-c10361 was supposed to be marking his opposing midfielder.
Although Jones was not as usual best, Carrick was impressed by what he saw and claimed that the player actually helped him out on several occasions during the tie.
"He's been off for a while and it's not easy to come back in a game like that - especially with me playing alongside him! He's not got someone like Rio, Jonny or http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Vida-c40888 next to him so he did ever so well and helped me out a few times."
Continuing, the defensive playmaker commented that although the Reds were not accustomed to losing in Europe’s premier competition, some of the football they played was quite laudable and they were unlucky not have created enough goal scoring opportunities.
"It's disappointing to lose the game because we don't like losing games. But there were a lot of positives, especially in the first half. We played some good football at times, it was just that the final ball didn't fall for us as we could've easily scored,”
Carrick was quoted as saying to the media
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