The English Premier League champions suffered their second knockout in the same season from a European competition as Athletic Bilbao put them to the sword in http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 by winning 5-3 on aggregate against the Red Devils...
Sir Alex has come out and humbly admitted that Manchester United were not good enough this year in European football as they were shown their frailties several times in both the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League. United
went out of the UEFA Champions League at the group stages as they failed to get the desired result against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Basel-c39079 in the group stages of the competition and then they were humbled by Athletic Bilbao as the Spanish underdogs gained 5-3 aggregate victory over
Sir Alex Ferguson’s team recently.
The Red devils thus find themselves out of European competitions and now their attention will turn to the Premier League where they have to fend off pressure from Manchester City at the top of the table to retain their one point
advantage at home.
Sir Alex’s tactics have also failed in Europe this season and they have been the primary cause of United’s knockout of both the competitions as he has tended to stick with his 4-4-2 system which has been so successful in the Premier
League.
Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 said, “Trying to analyse this season against others is a bit difficult. There is a route in terms of some of the goals we have lost in these tournaments. They have been pretty poor. It has been a disappointing year. Feeling
sorry for myself is not an issue for me. There is a disappointment but analysing the performances is more important and we have an important game on Sunday."
He added, "I don't think we can complain at the result. In the second half in particular, Bilbao were the better team. Their first goal was a bad one for us to lose. You can't believe an English team would lose a goal like that
to a long ball. Ours was too late to do anything about it. Athletic could do very well, what we have seen, tonight and last Thursday, is a team whose work rate is higher than anyone I have seen in Europe.”
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