Sir Alex Ferguson Not Satisfied

Old Traf­ford man­ager Sir Alex Fer­guson was not pleased with his team´s fin­ish­ing fol­low­ing their nar­row 1–0 defeat to David Moyes´s Ever­ton at Good­ison Park on Monday. It was the first open­ing day defeat for Manchester United since The Red Dev­ils lost 1–0 against Chelsea at Stam­ford Bridge in the first game of the 2004–2005 season.

Neth­er­lands inter­na­tional striker Robin van Per­sie even­tu­ally emerged from the anonym­ity of the sub­sti­tutes´ bench in the 68th minute of the derby encounter against Ever­ton but the trig­ger happy marks­man could not make any sort of impact on the match. Accord­ing to Sir Alex Fer­guson, his Manchester United team failed to cre­ate any decent oppor­tun­it­ies for the £22 mil­lion sum­mer sign­ing from Arsenal. Sir Alex Fer­guson: “We had the pos­ses­sion and made some great open­ings without actu­ally fin­ish­ing it. We were a bit dis­ap­point­ing in terms of fin­ish­ing off the approach play we had. We played around Robin van Per­sie too much, we did not show enough pen­et­ra­tion and, with him in your team, you know that you want to use his abil­ity against centre backs in situ­ations he is very good at.”