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Yesterday’s FA Cup defeat by city rivals Manchester City still seams a bitter pill to swallow for United boss Sir Alex Ferguson.

Numerous team slip-ups are reason enough for Fergie to be fuming at the lads and accordingly he stated: The first 15 minutes after half-time cost us the game.

“Slack moments. Edwin (van der Sar) had a bad kick out and Michael Carrick couldn’t hold it and it was a goal.

“From then on, they were defending apart from a couple of counter-attacks. It’s disappointing as we should’ve been ahead in the first half as we were the better team.

“The chances that Dimitar missed – there was a great save by the keeper but the second chance, from under the bar, if he’d have scored there, I had a feeling whoever scored first would win the match.”

However, they now now is not a good time to be lamenting the past and think about quitting, as they have a very important league game at Newcastle on Tuesday and they still want that 19th Premier League tittle, so Fergie is challenging his players to perform even on a higher level.

He added: “It’s a major game on Tuesday up at Newcastle. We’re getting recovered to get ready for the game on Tuesday.

“It doesn’t matter when you play, you know you’ve got to recover and get on a winning streak again.”

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