Sina Sports News - After losing the strong dialogue with Chelsea, Manchester United's championship situation this season is not optimistic. One third of the league has been played and they are already five points behind, and the Blues are in such good form that it will indeed be difficult to catch up. After the game, Ferguson immediately pointed the finger at the referee for this match, Martin Atkinson. He believed that Atkinson's refereeing led to Chelsea's winning goal. This caused him and his players "to lose confidence in the refereeing decisions."
Ferguson questioned two focal points: one was from Fletcher and Ashley Cole's tackling, where the referee ruled Fletcher's ball challenge as a foul. As a result, Lampard's free-kick led to Terry's goal. Here, the second point of contention arose as Drogba pushed over the defending Brown. An angry Ferguson said in an immediate interview with Sky Sports: "It's very clear, Darren Fletcher won that tackle, Ashley Cole wasn't touched at all, he just jumped up then. Then Drogba pushed Brown while competing for the ball. The position of the referee made this decision absurd, he actually saw nothing. Joe Cole was standing right in front of him (blocking his view), and he himself stood still."
So Ferguson could only come to one conclusion, saying: "That was really a bad decision, but there's nothing we can do about it. Sometimes you've lost confidence in the refereeing decisions."
However, Ferguson did not attribute the game's loss entirely to Atkinson. He admitted that his team should have seized more scoring opportunities, but unfortunately, Manchester United couldn't achieve that step. He said: "That goal shouldn't count, we dominated the game, we had great chances to win the game, that was our fault. We had great chances to reach both sides of the penalty area, and had some good opportunities inside and outside the box, but we really should have scored to win the game. In these aspects, we can only blame ourselves. In such situations, what you need is a breakthrough, we never broke through to the level we needed."
Finally, Ferguson admitted that the negative effects brought by this third defeat of the season (and also the third away defeat) were much stronger than when they lost 0-2 to Liverpool. He said: "Now the fact is that Chelsea is already five points ahead of us. Losing to Liverpool didn't affect our position in the league, but now it does. If we had won this game, we would be in first place today."
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