Alex Ferguson: Manchester United must improve
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ALEX FERGUSON believes his Manchester United troops must improve despite recording their best ever Premier League start.
First half goals from Chris Smalling, Nani and Wayne Rooney set up a 3-1 victory over Chelsea — making it five wins from five.
But having seen Rooney miss a penalty and a Fernando Torres howler avoid a nervy finish at Old Trafford, Fergie feels there is more hard work to be done.
He said: "It was a fantastic, open match but we created our own problems for ourselves.
"We gave the ball away in attacking areas and they kept counter-attacking us. In the first half they could have scored two or three.
"We created more opportunities, fantastic opportunities, particularly through Nani and Ashley Young, who kept getting in very good areas.
"That was our strength, they couldn't cope with that."
One negative for United was a late injury to Javier Hernandez, who went off after a poor challenge from Ashley Cole.
Asked about the Mexican striker's condition, Ferguson added: "For me it's a shocking tackle.
"The referee has booked him (Cole) and if he's booked him I don't know why it wasn't a penalty.
"We're going to have to wait until the morning because at the moment his leg is very numb. He could be out for a couple of weeks anyway."
Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas meanwhile bemoaned a "crazy scoreline" after his side lot their first game in the Premier League under him.
He said: "It was a strange game, very,very open and a lot of opportunities for both team.
"If luck could play a better part for our side today, maybe. We had some very good chances to even the score or even to score first.
"The scoreline went crazy in the first half, but we had good opportunities to do something in this game.
"Coming back from 3-0 down is always difficult and we had to take risks without exposing ourselves too much.
"The second-half recovery was very good and we had a couple of chances to even the score. The scoreline is crazy."
He also brushed aside Torres' horror miss, insisting it was a freak occurrence rather than a symptom of his struggles since his £50million move from Liverpool in January.
He added: "You have an example of Rooney missing a penalty too, which is basically the same.
"The worst things happen to the best strikers in the world and today it happened to both of them
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