www.bewin.com – Manchester United coach Sir Alex Ferguson has dismissed Jose Mourinho’s proposition that defence will be the precedence against Inter Milan.
The teams meet at the San Siro on Tuesday in the 1st leg of the Champions League final 16.
Although Inter manager Mourinho thinks United will keep it tight in advance of the return leg at Old Trafford on 11 March.
The onetime Chelsea coach laid claim originally on Monday that he anticipates a cautious meeting between the respective leaders of Serie A and the Premier League.
But Ferguson sounded out the contests away goal formula means United can’t afford to play overly defensive.
With Nemanja Vidic suspended, Gary Neville and Wes Brown already KO’d by injury and Jonny Evans and John O’Shea improbable to recuperate in time for the game, Ferguson is juggling several improvised defensive alternatives.
And he confessed that whatever back line he settles with, United will face up to a difficult evening against Inter’s Swedish forward Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Nonetheless, Ferguson was uninterested of Mourinho’s transcendency in head-to-head encounters with Manchester United.
The Portuguese manager orchestrated Porto’s victory of United at the equivalent stage of the contest in 2004, where a last-minute goal from Costinha propelled him to dash from the dug-out to join his players’ jubilations.
Whilst in charge at Chelsea he warded off defeat in all but one of his 10 encounters versus Ferguson and clinched back-to-back Premier League championships.
Mourinho assured that his squad would go on the attack against last year’s Champions League victors.Bewin.com
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