Rio Ferdinand has given an honest response to yesterday’s horrible result, owning up to the possibility of complacency in the United camp.
It is pleasing to hear that he is aware of how much a result like that should hurt, getting comprehensively beaten by our fiercest rivals, but insists we must now focus on Fulham.
“We have got a rude awakening,” said Rio. “None of us has been taking anything for granted but subconsciously there may have been complacency. Losing any game is disappointing but losing to a team who we have such a big rivalry with is even worse. And the scoreline takes it beyond that. It is very hard to take but results like this can be turned into a positive. Any complacency that was there will have been torn out of us. At least we are still a good position even if it doesn’t soften the blow. Now we have to dust ourselves down and get our minds right for the game at Fulham next week, when we will hopefully get ourselves back on track.”
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