Ben Foster was in no doubt as to who Manchester United owed their victory over Tottenham Hotspur to.Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster praised the performance of striker Dimitar Berbatov after the Bulgarian hit the winner against his former side Tottenham Hotspur in the FA Cup.
Spurs took the lead early in the match through Roman Pavyluchenko. However, United hit back through Paul Scholes and Berbatov to seal the win.
The champions’ equaliser did, however, take a heavy deflection off Tom Huddlestone, and Foster admitted that the intervention had proved crucial.
Speaking to the BBC he explained: “I think Carlos has lifted his leg up and let it run under him and I think it just caught Huddlestone or someone like that by total surprise, just clipped him on his leg and gone in the bottom corner.”
Berbatov then added a second minutes after Scholes’ equaliser and Foster said it had been a great finish by the striker. The United shot-stopper said: “[It was a] fantastic pass from Carrick, and Berba in those sorts of areas is pretty lethal. I mean I get to see him do that in training day in and day out. He was fantastic today.”
After three goals in the opening half, the performance by both sides after the break failed to reach the heights of the first half, which Foster blamed on the pitch: “I think the pitch was quite heavy and a bit bobby, it didn’t lead to much good football.”
However, the champions held on for a win that takes them into the fifth round of the FA Cup and their goalkeeper felt that an unprecedented quadruple was within his side’s sights. He said: “We are Man United, I think that’s got to be our aim at the start of every season. We’ve already won the Club World Cup as well, we’ve got to believe we can go on and win everything we play in.”
After featuring in the Carling Cup in midweek, today’s game was Foster’s second consecutive match for the champions and he admitted it was pleasing to get a run in the side.
“It’s probably been a couple of years now since I’ve had two games on the run,” he said before concluding, “It’s been a long time since I’ve played consecutive games and long may it continue - but I doubt it will!”
Resource: Goal.com
0 comments:
Post a Comment