Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 Ferguson has come out and lashed at Manchester United’s critics who have said recently that the club hasn’t got a good enough midfield pairing to win the English Premier League or do well in the UEFA Champions League.
Manchester United drew their last UEFA Champions League fixture against Benfica which now means that they will need a positive result against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Basel-c39079 next week in order to secure their place in the next round of the UEFA Champions League competition.
If United fail to win against Basel then it could see them lose out to a place in the knockout rounds of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over five years at the club. Sir Alex will be quite wary of the long season
that lies ahead for Manchester United especially as it was recently revealed that the Red Devils will be without http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Anderson-c5565 till February 2012 due to his knee injury.
The Scotsman said in his recent interview, "Criticism is fine as long as it's balanced. Anderson and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Tom-Cleverley-c35218 have been injured and those two, in particular, have tremendous potential – they’re fantastic young players. So
we're missing two very important cogs in the machine.
He further stated, “Darren Fletcher has had his issues and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Michael-Carrick-c25282 has been injured a few times, so we're trying to achieve a consistent midfield operation. And it's not just the midfield – you've also got to look at the
back four, which we've been changing all the time. We've done exceptionally well in spite of that.”
He added, "Everyone's saying 'go out and buy a central midfield player'. Well, I would do that if he were a Manchester United player. If we'd seen a young Bryan http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robson-c31388 or Roy Keane, we'd have been the first there. The possibilities
of improving our team are not lost on us."
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