Moyes `Ngeles` Terus meski Manchester United kian Terpuruk
Moyes Defends `Top Side` Manchester United
Editor : Cahyani Harzi
Translator : Dhelia Gani
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TEKANAN bertubi-tubi dan hujan kritik yang dilontarkan media massa kemudian dibalas balik oleh manajer Manchester United, David Moyes.
Moyes tidak ingin kalah angin jelang melakoni laga tandang melawan Arsenal di Stadion Emirates dalam ajang Liga Inggris (Premie League) yang diadakan pada Rabu waktu setempat, atau Kamis dini hari WIB.
Moyes yang menggantikan posisi Alex Ferguson menyebut bahwa ia sedang merombak dan menata kembali skuad The red Devils agar mampu selalu bersaing melakoni berbagai laga di berbagai kompetisi, seperti dilansir ESPN.
Pelatih asal Skotlandia itu kerapkali menjadi bulan-bulanan kritik media atas penampilan yang memprihatinkan dari Wayne Rooney dan kawan-kawan di sejumlah pertandingan.
Rapor Moyes kurang menggembirakan sepanjang kariernya dalam 48 laga tandang Liga Inggris (Premier League). Dari jumlah itu, Moyes mencecap 30 kali kalah, dan 18 kali imbang.
Moyes kemudian menyebut bahwa pemberitaan media mengenai masa depan Rio Ferdinand tidak ubahnya seperti "onggokan sampah".
Ia menjawab kritik yang dilontarkan surat kabar yang menulis bahwa Moyes sedang disergap frustrasi lantaran beroleh hasil imbang 2-2 melawan Fulham pada laga Inggris yang digelar pada Minggu.
Ketika ditanya mengenai topik jumpa pers yang ia akan gelar, Moyes mengatakan, "Yah, saya pikir hanya ada satu tim yang bakal meraih kemenangan, tetapi Anda (media) dapat menyaksikan sendiri, dengan begitu anda dapat menulis penampilan buruk Manchester United."
"Kami perlu perubahan. Anda perlu kepandaian untuk dapat meracik strategi dalam sepak bola. Nalar sepak bola untuk paham segala sesuatunya," kata Moyes.
DAVID Moyes is adamant Manchester United are still a top team, despite their slump.
United have won just three of their nine games in all competitions in 2014 and are only seventh in the Premier League, 15 points behind leaders Chelsea and with 21 fewer points than they had at this stage last season.
They travel to Arsenal on Wednesday as the underdogs but with manager Moyes in defiant mood and vowing to do whatever he can to inflict a second successive defeat on Arsene Wenger´s side.
He said: "We are a top side and we´ll do everything we can to get all the points."
Courtesy of a Robin van Persie goal, United beat Arsenal 1-0 at Old Trafford in November - their only league win against a team currently in the top nine - and Moyes believes they can earn a repeat.
"We got a good result against them at Old Trafford & we´ll try for the same again," Moyes said. "We´ve played better in several games but in that one we got the goal and sometimes that makes a difference."
United drew 2-2 against bottom club Fulham on Sunday and Moyes insists his side have been unfortunate this season.
"We played well and in any other game you would have scored many goals," Moyes said. "We didn´t get it on the day. Everybody keeps telling me about the stats and the opportunities we had so we had plenty of chances to win the game.
"We´re doing the right things, we need to keep going and our luck will change, there´s no doubt about that."
