MANCHESTER UNITED MANAGER Alex Ferguson says there will be no repeat of the club’s disastrous Champions League campaign of last season.
United were eliminated from the competition at the group stage after being beaten Swiss side Basel.
That result capped off a poor performance in a group the then-defending English Premier League champions were expected to win, with Benfica and Romanian newcomers Otelul Galati the other teams in their pool.
United had previously reached the final in three of the previous four editions of the tournament Ferguson has warned Europe his side will not make the same mistakes again in 2012/13.
“That definitely won’t happen next season. There’s no chance of that,” he said when asked a potential repeat of the unexpected early exit.
“Over the last few years, we’ve used the group stage as an opportunity to play the youngsters. Last season it backfired on us.
“We changed the team too much. We won’t be doing that this season.
“I just think we were careless. The killer was the game against Basel at home (which ended 3-3). We could have been 5-1 up at half-time but were really careless in that game.
“We were unlucky against Benfica at home because we played well, but that Basel game was a real killer for us. They were just an ordinary team and they showed that when they played Bayern Munich.
Lucky
“They were lucky against Bayern at home (Basel won 1-0 in the first leg of their last-16 tie) and they were lucky against us also. Bayern battered them (winning the second leg 7-0).”
Ferguson is confident he has a squad capable of emulating the United teams of 1999 and 2008 by delivering another Champions League crown to Old Trafford next season.
When quizzed on the subject, he replied: “Oh yes, definitely. Absolutely. There’s no doubt about that.
“Don’t forget that Nemanja Vidic only played six games for us (in the Premier League) last season, while Darren Fletcher was a loss too.”
He’s been injured according to LVG. It’s hardly a ‘rare’ start seeing as how he started every game when he was fit against the fan’s best wishes…
In David Moyes We Trust
In L Van Gaal We Trust
in Mario Fellaini We Trust
In LVG we trust, in Fellaini we must
Most electrifying elbow in sports though.
If Fellaini is the answer…..Then what is the question?
Is it possible use a pair of lethal elbows to become a highly paid professional footballer?
No mystery here. Liverpool are poor at defending set pieces so you start a tall fella. If he scores they will call LvG a tactical genius!
Fellaini is a fu(king useless pri(k. He is nothing but a thug masquerading as a footballer.
Shows Van Gaal’s intentions before a ball is kicked by dropping Herrera and playing 2 defensive midfield players. Fellaini contributes nothing as a midfielder only useful (sometimes) at set plays.
I’m gonna vomit