FERGUSON NO EXCUSES THIS TIME

Last updated : 20 February 2006 By editor

"They had one attempt at goal and then the goal, but that's what they're all about because they only need to play for five minutes - that's the way they are now,” Ferguson told MUTV.

"They just pump the ball into the box and their set-piece delivery is very good. They keep you under pressure all the time and I think we just didn't have enough height today to cope with that. They depend on keeping a tight ship at the back and they're very difficult to beat.

"I think we dominated the game in the second half, but we should have done better in the first half - we showed nothing threatening really.


"In the second half, when we got any momentum going they just stopped the game by giving free-kicks away - and that was hard to handle."