Saturday, April 26, 2008

If Ferguson is doing to Machester United what Ericksson did to England?

I have watched Barcelona Vs Manchester United and Chelsea Vs Manchester United in last four days and eagerly waiting for Tuesday ( 29th April) for Manchester United Vs Barcelona.

United have drawn with Barcelona in Nou Camp 0-0 and lost to Chelsea at Bridge 2-1.
Both the games united played very defensive very much like a bottom of the league team plays the top of the league team to avoid a humiliating defeat.

Till now Manager Ferguson's tactics hang on a balance. United can still progress to Champions league final and win the premier league. He has also been able to rest the players he wanted , barring Hargreaves who was forced early into action at bridge with Vidic being injured.

Ferguson wanted two draws and he ended up with one draw and one loss. We as supporters of the club are patient till now but if the result goes wrong against Barcelona and they bottle up at Wigan you would say it was all down to Ferguson's tactics. The same tactics applied by Seven Goran Ericksson, the manage or England in FIFA World Cup 2006. He restrained Rooney and company till the 60th minute of the game and then england ran out of their luck. He never went full throttle in that game against Portugal. He never allowed his players to express themselves in that game.

These negative tactics have cost England in the World Cup . Will these tactics help Manchester United. Only time will tell .

But we would have been happier if United have played both these games as they know to play, People would have loved them more. I hope United play good attacking football against Barcelona come this Tuesday. Let us see how might United are. Or how good Sir Alex Ferguson is. This time he has no excuse in Europe.