Ferguson says Utd far fitter than City

[YourBirdCanSing22]

Last week it genuinely looked like united had planned their training regime for their season to start with the Charity Shield, we looked like we'd prepared ours to start a week later.

They were fitter, faster and better organised in every area of the field. For about 60 minutes, we couldn't get near them. It was worrying to watch, and anyone who was there would have to agree. From the moment they scored their first, a second looked inevitable, and a 3rd looked fairly likely. It came in the 90th, but it could easily have come earlier.

It wasn't a friendly for them, and let's be honest: it wasn't a friendly for us either. It was an opportunity to put down a marker, but it turned out to be potentially the most damaging performance since Liverpool away last season. The only positive is how well we bounced back from that result.

Hart called it a 'wake up call' - let's hope we're fully awake now.

 

[Vienna_70]

Shakin's not at all worried about us, then is he?

It is obvious from the way scum went about it last week, the semi-final still hurts.

And who was the one who said the CS was part of their pre-season training regime?

It wasn't Bobby.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

How is it then that extremely well paid proffesional athletes and one of the 'best ' managers in football aren't ready.£75 million in 2 players and they aren't fit,dear oh fuckin dear.No excuses these days

 

[persvenality cult]

When Wigan RL club were winning everything one of their players commented "We always look a bit sluggish at the start of the season, that's because we've been training harder than everyone else. But it means we lose a touch of pace. Our training is aimed at making sure we're at our sharpest in the second half of the season, nobody will be able to touch us from January"

I'm sure it's been said many times by people in football as well. Clubs always arrive in different states of physical preparation for the earliest games of the season. If you're a strong team then that should keep you in the mix until Christmas. Everything is geared up towards the second half of the season. Teams often sacrifice a bit of sharpness during that early period in order to maximise performance levels later in the year, when the trophies/qualifications/promotions/relegations are decided.


Ferguson is recognised as one of the masters of this. So I figured he was basically letting Mancini know that he wasn't getting carried away by the relative performances and wouldn't make the mistake of underestimating us when we meet in competition.


It was the same story last year with Tottenham; they ran rings around us in the first game of the season. I said at the time that I'd never seen a team moving around so quickly, looking so sharp, on the first day of the season. I was sure this meant they'd forgone some core fitness training in order to hit the ground running, because they had crucial games in the Champions League right from the get-go. And waddya know, they fell away around Christmas. I'm not saying Utd have done the same but people need to relax.

 

[fulabeer]

Over training before the start of the season can lead to early injuries.
Before you know it, you have your best players sidelined and you drop points.
Letting players come up to speed in actual games creates sharpness and match fitness.
Yes this does mean you look slow for the first few games, but it does pay dividends later on.

United may look fitter now, but let's see their speed drop off in the next few games and the injuries mount up...

 

[Vienna_70]

I see camel-gob has done his hamstring and is out for six weeks.

A case of over-training pre-season or just the thick b@st@rd is injury-prone?

 

[waspish]

I see camel-gob has done his hamstring and is out for six weeks.

A case of over-training pre-season or just the thick b@st@rd is injury-prone?

Shame he looked so fit as well ;-)

 

[MCFC 4 EVER]

So if Taggart has this so fit squad why did the scum only get 1 shot on target against a relegation contender? Is he still so confident we won't win the league
Tick tock 28th April 2012 the home derby and anti-penultimate game of the season and a game in wich we might end his title hopes and gain the title ourselves

 

[ellspark]

Fergie has been doing this a lot longer and perfecting it, it has to be said, than our man. He has adapting and the United have learned from it.
And it's not just them. Look at the clown Roy Keane when he was at Sunderland nearly all their goals seemed to come in the last few minutes.
It's a mental attitude and it's physical fitness, they have it burned into them, don't stop playing until the final whistle.
And how many times has that worked for them, even against us, constantly they seem to beat us in the last remaining minutes of the game, over and over again, and we can call it Fergie time all we like and whinge and moan, but truth be told, we have the exact same time they do.

Yet nobody seems to have that backbone, the ability or even the will to stick it out.

That's one of the main reasons they're so hard to beat, it's very hard for a team to hold on for the 90 plus minutes against them.

This year is our year, blah, blah, blah, it's only our year if we deserve it to be. Winning games is what wins you titles, not scoring loads of goals, and playing attractive football. Sometimes all you need is 90 minutes of hard tackles, and 30 seconds at the end to win the game.

They will continue to keep their fitness levels high as the seasons go on, just because he called us out for looking like we'd been on holidays tanning ourselves on the beach while they've been training hard, doesn't change much.

There's a lot we could learn from them if we just admitted they were right about something. That, as much as we hate them, that they set the bar, that they are champions for a reason.
Not likely eh?

 

[Mancio]

Fergie has been doing this a lot longer and perfecting it, it has to be said, than our man. He has adapting and the United have learned from it.
And it's not just them. Look at the clown Roy Keane when he was at Sunderland nearly all their goals seemed to come in the last few minutes.
It's a mental attitude and it's physical fitness, they have it burned into them, don't stop playing until the final whistle.
And how many times has that worked for them, even against us, constantly they seem to beat us in the last remaining minutes of the game, over and over again, and we can call it Fergie time all we like and whinge and moan, but truth be told, we have the exact same time they do.

Yet nobody seems to have that backbone, the ability or even the will to stick it out.

That's one of the main reasons they're so hard to beat, it's very hard for a team to hold on for the 90 plus minutes against them.

This year is our year, blah, blah, blah, it's only our year if we deserve it to be. Winning games is what wins you titles, not scoring loads of goals, and playing attractive football. Sometimes all you need is 90 minutes of hard tackles, and 30 seconds at the end to win the game.

They will continue to keep their fitness levels high as the seasons go on, just because he called us out for looking like we'd been on holidays tanning ourselves on the beach while they've been training hard, doesn't change much.

There's a lot we could learn from them if we just admitted they were right about something. That, as much as we hate them, that they set the bar, that they are champions for a reason.
Not likely eh?

they are just lucky