The Scottish tactician reitrated that he has no complaints over his youthful side’s defeat against Galatasaray, claiming that he expected something like this to happen.
Manchester United’s trip to the Türk Telecom Arena could have overwhelmed the likes of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 such was the atmosphere created by the home supporters in the Stadium.
And with the coach opting for a very inexperienced line-up, the players can be forgiven for not being able to generate the required result last night after they were raided in a hit and go mission by Galatasaray.
Nick Powell, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 rested his senior players for the upcoming Premier League weekend.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Felipe-Melo-c13535 for the majority of the night.
The Brazilian midfielder was a constant thorn in the Red Devils’ side and almost gave his team the lead after calling http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Anders-Lindegaard-c5553 into a brilliant save.
From the ensuing corner, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Burak-Yilmaz-c8206 scored with a superb header into the top corner and sent the home fans into delirium.
United tried their best to bounce back, but in the end, the result did not make much of a difference as the 19-time English champions had already secured their qualification to the knock-out rounds.
Ferguson, a man who usually gets infuriated by such defeats, was relatively calm and claimed that with a young squad, the Reds had done well throughout the ninety minutes to keep the hosts at bay.
"Their temperament was good, the crowd never affected us and I thought they put up a reasonable show. Some of the possession was good; some of the attacking play at times was good without finishing the game off with one or two opportunities in both halves.”
"But when you lose a goal from a set-piece you are always going to be saying it's a bad way to lose a goal. They had a few strikes from outside the box which our goalkeeper dealt with well, other than that I thought we handled it OK,” the former Aberdeen boss was quoted as saying.
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