SAF lại đề cao đội hình năm nay tốt hơn năm 99:-s, SAF cũng đề cao đối thủ Barca phải chăng đây là 1 lời khích lệ tinh thần các cầu thủ trước trận chiến với Villareal đêm nay :)) . Trận đấu tối nay mang nhiều ý nghĩa tuy nhiên MU cũng đang có vấn đề khi nhiều cầu thủ trụ cột trấn thương:-ss:-ssTrích dẫn:
Sir Alex Ferguson believes his side are better coped to win the Champions League again than the Reds were in 1999.
United’s Treble season brought unparalleled success to Old Trafford, but the English and European Double last term puts the Reds in a similar position this season.
“The year after 1999 we were very naïve,” admitted the boss. “Teams sussed us out tactically; teams like Ajax and Anderlecht played counter attack on their own grounds which caught us by surprise. We should have changed, but we didn’t and we suffered. We didn’t do well that year.
“This season I think I have a better squad so we can make changes tactically and we have improved that side of our game. Our players have grown up in European football. They’ve become familiar in the way the games can change in Europe.”
United’s task of winning the Champions League is made harder this season by the precedent of no team winning back-to-back titles since the competition’s reformatting in 1992.
“Milan should have won it twice in a row recently, but the main reason that it’s so difficult to win it two years running is that it’s so competitive. You have the best four teams from Spain, Italy and England - it’s a very tough competition. That’s the main reason why a team hasn’t won it twice in a row in its current format.”
Sir Alex puts Barcelona in with the other three English sides as the teams most likely to contest United’s European crown.
“Barcelona will be a big threat to everyone,” he said. “Our experience of playing against them last season was that they are a very difficult team to play against. This season under their new coach Josep Guardiola,
