Rio has declared that he won't hold his defensive partner responsible for United's drubbing by the Merseysiders...On the scale of things, Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic had a fairly terrible day at the office on Saturday. Receiving a straight red for bringing down Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard and making a mistake that allowed Fernando Torres to convert an equaliser, it really was not the big Serbian's day.
Speaking to MUTV, Rio Ferdinand gave his thoughts on the 4-1 defeat at Old Trafford.
"The sending-off and third goal came at a really critical time. I thought the referee's decision to send Vida off was debatable as I could have got over there to cover," he said.
"Vida has been one of our most consistent players this season and everyone is allowed to make a mistake, so we won’t be getting on his back."
After a refusal to castigate his fellow defender, Ferdinand summarised the game from his perspective.
"It was a nervy start from both teams but we took the lead and started to get a foot in the game," he continued.
"Even when they were 2-1 up, we started to turn the screw in the second half and Carlos Tevez had a half-chance".
The England stopper only displayed positivity despite suffering such a horrendous defeat, claiming that his team would use the loss as a learning experience.
"Losing any game is disappointing, losing to your big rivals is even worse and the scoreline compounds that," he said.
"But we have to turn this into a positive. This game will have torn out any sub-conscious complacency there may have been. We got a rude awakening today that if we don’t go out and work hard as a collective unit then we won’t get the results.
"We now have time to dust ourselves down and get our minds on the game against Fulham next week. It would have been nice if that game was right round the corner but we have to deal with what’s in front of us."
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