Manchester United have secured yet another record for Sir Alex by remaining unbeaten in their opening 13 matches for the first time under Sir Alex.

But not even that was enough to put a smile on Sir Alex’s face, following United’s poor performance at Villa Park

“We controlled the first half, and had a couple of good chances,” said Ferguson. “But in the second half I just think it was carelessness on our part. Our passing was poor. Normally we can control the match. We didn’t control it.”

“We are a club though that never says there is no way back. We brought people on (Macheda and Gabriel Obertan) and they changed the game in fairness to them.

“There was a great life and adventure about them. Macheda scored a great goal and with another five minutes we would have won the game.”

“I could have taken any of 10 players off because we didn’t perform well.” Sir Alex explained, after taking off Berbatov and Hernandez

“We came back well but it was too late and we shouldn’t have been in that position. I expected us to do better in terms of our play.”

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