Manchester United is desperate to end their season with silverware while they are preparing for a crucial Europa League final against Tottenham, where both teams are in poor form in the collision
The legend Rio Ferdinand of Manchester United fears that the team can be physically struggling against Tottenham in the Europa League final, and admitted that the men of Ruben Amorim “cannot keep a team in the Premier League”. The Red Devils flew to Bilbao in the hope of ending their terrible season with silverware, with spurs that stand in the way.
United will be favorites against the Tottenham of Ange Postecoglou because of their distant superior record in the final and winning trophies, but both teams have struggled in the Premier League this season, in which the teams are 16th and 17th in the table respectively.
Spurs can have an upper hand to go into the game after he has defeated this season three times in the competition and cup, although everything will go in the air during a huge European final.
And Ferdinand is worried that his old team miss the pace and physicality of their Premier League rivals, with the argument that they have performed well in Europe this season because they still have to meet an English team.
“The disturbing thing for me from a man United Perspective is that we can physically not keep a team in the Premier League,” he said, speaking with Talksport.
“If they go man-to-man and go with us to a disadvantage, we are to a disadvantage because our profile of our players at Man United are not players who can walk so fast and so fast, and so long, and they are not as powerful as other teams. That is a big thing in the Premier League. In the Europe, we have every team superfluous.
“There is only one team that I have seen playing against in the Europa League that we struggled and thought against: 'Ooh, that was a bit too close to comfort'. Rangers, who are more related to a Premier League side, physically. So that is the care for me in the last game against a Premier League team, who defeated us three times, those who defeated us, those physics, those who defeated us.”
Ferdinand has a rich history of winning trophies for Manchester United, after he has lifted six Premier League titles, two leagueups and the Champions League in 2007-08. He played 455 times for the club and goes down as one of their biggest defenders ever.
But with United a much other side in the current day under Amorim, Ferdinand insisted that he would not be surprised if Spurs would defeat them in Bilbao, although he said he could just call it 'the result.
“I have to be honest, I can't call a man United result,” he told Optus Sport. “They are so inconsistent or they have been consistently bad in the Premier League. But the fact that they play against Spurs, another consistently bad team in the Premier League. But they have players who can win a match. It makes it such a hard game to call.
“I don't think the fans can be too surprised (if spurs win). They are already beating us three times this season, so it will be no surprise if they beat us a fourth time. I think it will only be stupid people who go,” oh my God, I can't believe this. “
“We are 16th because we have lost many matches. 18 Premier League matches that we have lost this season. Everyone who is surprised if we don't win this match against Spurs is a madman in my eyes.”
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