The veteran tactician claims that the wide midfielders were to blame for the defeat, as they sorely lacked creativity up-front.
Manchester United were unable to get the better of Norwich City, as the Red Devils crumbled to a surprise 1-0 defeat.
With http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Wayne-Rooney-c36736 out, Sir Alex Ferguson opted to give Javier Hernandez a starting role at the helm following his sensational performance against Aston Villa.
The Mexican led the line and was joined in attack by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Canaries-c38723.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Valencia-c6345 tried to influence proceedings on the right, but even he wasn’t able to make a difference as Norwich took the lead through Anthony Pilkington’s sublime header.
The 19-time English champions were shell shocked and clearly tried their best to get back into the game; however luck abandoned them as none of their efforts were able to get past in-form shot stopper http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/John-Ruddy-c18892.
Sir http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alex-c4752 was rightfully furious after the final whistle and his misery was compounded even further after realizing that Manchester City had been able to overtake his charges in the Premier League table.
While speaking to reporters, the tactician later blamed United’s wingers for the defeat, claiming that the likes of Young and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Valencia-c40863 failed to do their duties during most of the game.
“We were too long delaying our crosses. We should have got the ball in earlier. Ashley Young improved that but we just didn’t get into the space behind them. It just didn’t happen for us. Norwich got plenty of men behind the ball and closed out all the spaces
and we just couldn’t get our crosses in.”
“There are times when you have to recognise the opposition have played beyond themselves. It was a really special effort.”
Continuing, the former Aberdeen boss spoke about Rooney’s impending return and reiterated that the forward might be in contention for a start in the UEFA Champions League if he recovered in time.
“Hopefully we can get him ready for Europe,” said Ferguson.
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