The English centre-back claims that United should not have settled for three points on Saturday and instead should have looked to inflict maximum damage on http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Arsenal-c38429.
Rio Ferdinand was the Red Devils’ main presence in the heart of the backline as they overcome Arsene Wenger’s men at home. The Three Lions’ International was tasked with subduing Olivier Giroud and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lukas-Podolski-c22896, something which he made sure of during the
ninety minutes.
While the 19-time English champions were superb at the back, for the first time this season, they were unable to penetrate the opposing defence and missed a host of clear cut chances to secure their lead at the top.
Wayne Rooney and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Valencia-c6345 were the biggest culprits, as both of them missed from close range and looked set to suffer because of it. However, the Londoners failed to trouble the Manchester outfit and only lowered the scoreline after netting a late
consolation from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Santi-c32503 Cazorla’s sublime effort.
United had been dominating proceedings and limited their rivals to harmless possession in the middle of the park, so the scoreline was far from reality and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Rio-Ferdinand-c31173 has urged his fellow teammates to correct this issue when they play their next game.
“We should have finished the game off. If you had been in our changing room after the game you’d have thought we’d lost it the way the mood was. It was a little flat but if we had scored the second goal a little bit earlier or that penalty at the end of
the first half I think you would have seen five or six go in.”
Continuing, the player added that the match was a tough one in terms of his side’s attacking potency and they needed to up their tempo if they are to resume normality at the Theatre of Dreams.
“It wasn’t to be. Sometimes you have games like this and you just want to get out of them with a win. We’d liked to have gone in 2-0 but the penalty miss (http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 missed after 45 minutes) didn’t kill us. We made it hard work for ourselves because we
gave them a glimmer of hope to get back in it if they scored.”
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