The Scot admitted that his side struggled against Reading last night, but added that he was quite relieved to have picked up three points.
Manchester United’s defensive struggles have been well documented this season but no pundit or fan could have predicted the Madejski Stadium outcome yesterday.
The Red Devils, fresh from their narrow win over West Ham, were buoyed by Manchester City and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786’s results, thus travelled to Reading knowing that a win would go a long way in securing the Premier League top spot.
Hal Robson-Kanu gave the hosts an early lead on 8 minutes, but Brazilian midfielder http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Anderson-c5565 continued his good run of form and netted the equalizer five minutes later.
United have looked weak in set-pieces and it was no surprise when Adam Le Fondre headed the Royals back level on 19 minutes, just after http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 had given his side the lead.
Sean Morrison added another for Reading but Rooney and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robin-van-Persie-c31380 scored one-a-piece to take the score to 3-4 with only 34 minutes being played.
While the first half was full of action, the second was dull and never really showcased the attacking creativity shown in the opening 45 minutes.
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However, the former Aberdeen boss was far from pleased with his troops’ performance and reiterated that the backline has been shoddy at best this season.
"We deserved to get battered today. Nobody competed for the crosses. In fairness Reading have a great delivery of the ball - the boy [Nicky] Shorey whips them in, fantastic crosses but we should be doing better than that. It was terrible,” he said.
Continuing, he added that comebacks such as these were not always going to save the day, thus it it was imperative that the 19-time English champions' return back to their very best.
"If you make mistakes like that defending then you are going to have to do rescue jobs every week. Today was another rescue http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Job-c18684. It was a miracle that we won the way we were defending. I'm just glad we did win it,” Fergie was quoted as saying to the media.
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