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| Ryan Giggs, The Living Legend |
Ryan Giggs admitted United's Capital One Cup defeat at
Chelsea was "tough to take", but the veteran took a lot of heart from
the performances of some of the squad's younger members. While
the likes of Giggs, Darren Fletcher, Anderson and Nani brought a wealth
of experience to the Reds' side, Sir Alex also included a number of his
rising stars, namely Michael Keane, Scott Wootton and, from half-time,
Nick Powell.United were just seconds away from going through to
the next round of the competition, but an injury-time Chelsea penalty
sent the entertaining clash into extra-time with the Blues eventually
running out 5-4 winners.
"It's tough to take," Giggs told MUTV afterwards. "When you score four goals away from home more often than
not you win the game, but it just seems to be one of those weeks in the
Cup. "We had the game in the bag with seconds to go. We had the
ball deep in their half, lost it and they went up the other end and got
the penalty. When it goes to extra-time it's anyone's game. "I'm
proud of the young players who played though - there were some great
performances. They will have learnt a lot and you learn more from losing
as well. You try and take the positives from a game like that but there
are a lot of disappointed lads in there and rightly so because they put
in good performances. But they'll learn from it and the experience
they'll gain from this is more than they could ever get from a Reserve
game."Out of the two sides they probably had the most experienced
players with a lot of quality to come off the bench. They had to stick
all their big guns on in the end to make an impact which they did."As I said though I'm proud of the young players - they never stopped
battling. We're just disappointed to put on a good performance, score
four goals and come away with nothing."
Having played over 917
matches for the Reds you'd have thought Giggs would have seen it all in
his career, but he admitted afterwards that, even now, the beautiful
game still never ceases to amaze you. "After seeing the
Reading/Arsenal game last night nothing should surprise you in
football!" he joked. "It was unbelievable and it was similar tonight. "You've
got to be prepared for anything and fight right to the end.
Unfortunately it wasn't to be for us. We put so much effort in but we go
home disappointed and feel completely different to Sunday [after the
league win over Chelsea]."But we'll take the loss and look
forward to the rest of the season because there are plenty of positives
to take going forward."
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