Source: Daily_Mail
So, is this why it's all falling apart at Manchester United, Fergie?
When Cristiano Ronaldo scored a first-half penalty to give Manchester United the lead against Liverpool in the Barclays Premier League on March 14, Sir Alex Ferguson's team looked set to wrap up the title with almost a quarter of the season to run.The Carling Cup and the Club World Cup were already in the trophy cabinet and all that remained was for United to complete the other two legs of an unprecedented quintuple by concentrating on the FA Cup and Champions League. Or so it seemed.Less than a month on and United are falling apart. The champions lost 4-1 to Liverpool, of course, then were beaten 2-0 at Fulham. A 3-2 home league win over Aston Villa at the weekend seemed to relieve the pressure, but they performed embarrassingly in drawing 2-2 at home with Porto in Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final first leg. It is clear something is fundamentally wrong.
World's top player? Ronaldo has only been going through the motions recently
COMPLACENCYDO professional footballers paid tens of thousands of pounds a week really take their eye off the ball when results are coming too easily for them? As remarkable as it sounds, it seems they do. Sir Ferguson himself suggested before the Villa game that his young players had been reading too many newspapers and after Tuesday's difficult night against Porto, central defender Nemanja Vidic hinted that the boss may have been right.Asked if United had eased off recently, the Serbia centre back said: 'To be honest, maybe. Against Liverpool, maybe you can say we took it easier because we had a game in hand and there was a big gap in points. We didn't think we were relaxed at the time but maybewe were.'
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