摘要：
    曼联主教练弗格森9日在率队2：0击败劲敌阿森纳队取得联赛第33轮的胜利后信心大增，认为本场比赛的胜利为曼联追赶“领头羊”切尔西队提供了“一个的机会”。
    Sir Alex Ferguson believes Manchester United's 2-0 victory over Arsenal yesterday has given his side "an outstanding chance" of catching Chelsea at the top of the Premiership.

    曼联主教练弗格森9日在率队2：0击败劲敌阿森纳队取得联赛第33轮的胜利后信心大增，认为本场比赛的胜利为曼联追赶“领头羊”切尔西队提供了“一个的机会”。

    据英国《卫报》4月10日报道，本场比赛曼联依靠鲁尼和朴智星下半场的入球，在老特拉福德球场2：0击败阿森纳队，取得联赛9连胜，积分也飙升至75分，仅比本轮同样获胜的切尔西队少7分。在英超联赛还剩5轮的情况下，虽然切尔西队无论是在积分还是在净胜球上都处于优势，但如果曼联在本周五的联赛上击败积分垫底的桑德兰队，同时已经4连败背水一战的博尔顿队在锐步体育场战胜切尔西队的话，那么双方的积分差距将缩小到4分。

    “现在有谁会相信博尔顿队会连败5场？反正我不相信，”曼联主教练弗格森在赛后新闻发布会上表示，“别忘了，除了这场艰巨的比赛以外，切尔西队还有一场是对阵布莱克本的恶战，而在一轮他们还将面对纽卡斯尔的挑战。那将是纽卡前锋希勒在结束职业生涯之前的一场比赛。因此，总的来说我们也有一些对自己有利的因素。”

    虽然弗格森为曼联赶超切尔西队描绘了光明的前景，但主动权仍在切尔西队手中。曼联最终“翻盘”的可能只能寄托在切尔西队阶段连续输球的前提下。为此曼联主教练弗格森认为这并非不可能，老爵爷甚至将1992年联赛曼联先输后赢夺得联赛的例子搬了出来。

    弗格森指出：“如果我们赢得联赛几轮的比赛，我们夺冠的机会将大增。4月29日我们将做客斯坦福桥挑战切尔西，如果我们获胜的话，那么我们将获得的机会。同切尔西队的这场比赛将是决定联赛归属的关键一战。”已经在联赛中取得9连胜的曼联，如果在5轮比赛中全部获胜的话，那么他们将追平俱乐部此前创造的14连胜纪录。

    在同阿森纳队的比赛中，曼联还创造了一项英超纪录。统计表明，本场比赛吸引了7万908名观众，为英超主场上座率。

    本轮落败的阿森纳队主教练温格，赛后就主力前锋亨利本场仅仅替补出场20分钟的问题做了解释。

    “亨利还没有完全从上周三对阵尤文图斯队后的疲劳中恢复过来，”他说，“他并没有受伤，否则我也不会将他放入比赛球员名单。他比任何人参加的比赛都要多，问题就这么简单。”就阿森纳队输球的原因，温格认为亨利没有出场并不是问题所在。他分析说，纵观整场比赛你就会发现，曼联的进攻远比阿森纳队犀利，因此理应获胜。

    阿森纳队本赛季的目标目前就是争取进入前4，以便获得下赛季欧洲联赛的资格。他们的竞争对手就是目前排在积分榜第4位的托特纳姆热刺队。热刺目前积58分，比阿森纳多5分，不过阿森纳队目前少赛一场，同时还有一场主场对阵热刺的比赛，为此阿森纳队机会尚存。主教练温格表示：“虽然我们今天丧失了一些机会，但从理论上讲我们还掌握着主动权。我们的问题就是，要兼顾联赛，因此赛程将非常紧密。我觉得，为了联赛，今天我们付出了一些代价。”

    Sir Alex Ferguson believes Manchester United's 2-0 victory over Arsenal yesterday has given his side "an outstanding chance" of catching Chelsea at the top of the Premiership.

    United's ninth successive win, with second-half goals from Wayne Rooney and Park Ji-Sung, has left them seven points adrift with only five games to go. Chelsea also have a superior goal difference but United can reduce the gap to four points by beating Sunderland at Old Trafford on Friday and Ferguson believes Bolton can do him a favour when Chelsea travel to the Reebok Stadium on Saturday.

    "Do you think Bolton will lose five games in a row? Because I don't think so. Remember, too, that Chelsea have to go to Blackburn, which is another tough game, and then they play at Newcastle on the last day of the season when it will be Alan Shearer's last game for the club. So we have several things in our favour.

    "We need them to drop points. In fact, we need a collapse but it can happen, as we have seen in the past. Chelsea have some tough away games coming up. It happened to us in 1992 when we lost three games and drew one over Easter and lost the title to Leeds United.

    "We believe we are capable of going all the way and that, if we win our remaining games, it will give us an outstanding chance. We've got to go to Stamford Bridge [on April 29] and win but we've still got a great chance, absolutely. The game at Chelsea will be the title decider."

    On the day Old Trafford attracted its best ever attendance for a United game of 70,908, setting a new Premiership high in the process, Ferguson set his sights on achieving another milestone, equalling the club's record of 14 successive wins by maintaining their victorious form until the end of the season. Apparently unconcerned by the manner in which Chelsea's 10 men came back from a goal down to put four past West Ham, he is adamant such a scenario could yet result in the ninth Premiership title of his 20-year reign.

    "We need another five victories, starting on Friday, and the great thing is that we're playing with such great verve and enthusiasm. The players are enjoying themselves and I'm enjoying watching them. Our form has been excellent and right now we are seeing Manchester United at their best - exciting, entertaining and always looking for goals."

    Ferguson described Rooney as "absolutely sensational" after the England forward had opened the scoring and then set up Park for the second. He also denounced stories in some of the Sunday newspapers that Rooney had accumulated ?700,000 of gambling debts, allegations that have led to the Football Association confirming that Sven-Goran Eriksson will ring the player in some concern to see if he has a problem.

    "It's absolute rubbish," said Ferguson. "I've said it time and again. We have a media that wants to examine every part of players' lives. They had George Best in the 60s, then Paul Gascoigne came along, then David Beckham. They have been searching for someone new to fill a headline and then along comes Wayne. It's pathetic but unfortunately it's the age we live in. They do it purely to sell newspapers but we know Wayne, we know what's he like and we're not worried at all. We just have to dsmiss it."

    Rooney was later asked if the stories had affected him. "Look at my performance," he replied, "and you will be able to answer that question yourself."

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