For the first time since the year 1962, Manchester United was successful to avoid a straight third defeat while playing in their home ground. With a 1-0 victory, the team has found their old pace, but the manager is still grim with their situation and has questions with the team’s performance rate. According to him, the team needs to improve to make it at the top of the Champions league.

Need of Improvement

Manager David Moyes has stated that the improvement will lead the team to progress in the future. The manager had admitted in front of the media that his team did not display their best performance. He further claimed that the team’s performance was same as was witnessed in the previous games where they lost successively two times in a row. The team ultimately shook and started to perform after half time when the manager gave the team players a speech inside the dressing room.

Performance against Shakhtar Donetsk

The team has eventually emerged as winners of the qualifying round while carefully avoiding Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. However, they came at a loss past the quarter finals. Former midfielder of the MU, Roy Keane has mentioned in one of his comments that the team is no longer playing like a team, but seem to be a group of individuals running around the open field.

Manager to the Press

The manager has also said that a person can defend a team when it makes mistakes since there is no team that does not make one or two mistakes. However, in this case, he boldly said that his team has no made mistakes but has failed to tackle and even coming close to the opposing team’s players.

Moyes has mentioned to the press that Manchester united has been a favorite from in the earlier stage, during the month of February. But, he now wants the team to improve to progress through the champion’s league. According to him, the team does have a chance in the tournament with them winning the group match. He further said that teams like MU always play to win the trophy of the tournament.

David Moyes is upset with Ashley Young’s Performance in Last Game

The press also got to hear the manager’s opinion of the team’s performance during the game against Shakhtar Donetsk. The first half had the team display one of the worst performances of the team. The team went up to the point, where they gave a lot of opportunities to the opposition team to score a number of goals, which Shakhtar Donetsk failed to achieve at the end.

Points to Note

The Ukrainian team dominated the grounds during the first half and if tried, could have maintained a tie. He further mentioned that he is happy in the end since the team was able to out run others in the group matches after so many opinions were claimed about the manager’s inexperience of handling the champion’s league.

Conclusion

The manager did mention the irresponsible performance of Ashley Young as he did failed two golden opportunities to goal in the first half. He also said that Rio Ferdinand's decision making was not up to the mark during the game, and this would have resulted in a catastrophe and eventually a tie. However, with Manchester United winning the group games, it is time to expect some progressive game and performance from them in the coming future.

Summary: Champion’s League is all set to enter its twelve week. For now, Manchester United has emerged as winners of the group games by winning against Shakhtar Donetsk.

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