Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson looking to bounce back from FA Cup exit
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has challenged his players to show the spirit of Champions and bounce back from their FA Cup exit at the hand of archrivals
Manchester City.
Yaya Toure’s second half strike was all that separated the two sides, as United ended the semi-final on the wrong end of a 1-0 score line.
The result will be a massive blow to the Manchester United dressing room. It is never easy to bow out of a tournament as prestigious as the FA Cup, but will hurt United all the more as their dreams of a treble in the ongoing 2010-11 season have now
been shattered.
The Red Devils are within touching distance of the Premier League and Champions League titles, and a victory over
Manchester City in the semi-final of the FA Cup would have kept them on track for a repeat of their 1999 treble winning heroics.
However, the season is still far from over, and there is still a lot to play for. It is a fact that Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has portrayed to his players after their FA Cup exit. The Scot has urged his charges to recover quickly
from this disappointment and concentrate on consolidating their position in the Premier League. The Red Devils travel to Tyneside on
Tuesday, 19 April, 2011 to face Newcastle United next.
Speaking after the match, Ferguson said, “It's a major game on Tuesday up at
Newcastle. We're getting recovered to get ready for the game on Tuesday. It doesn't matter when you play, you know you've got to recover and get on a winning streak again.”
It seems as if Javier Hernandez and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dimitar-Berbatov-c11254 gave the manager little reason to put his faith in him. The Bulgarian missed two glorious opportunities in the first half, and had he
managed to convert his chances, it would undoubtedly be United who would be celebrating a place in the FA Cup final.
Ferguson said, “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.”
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