Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has refused to be drawn into Roberto Mancini's title race mind games.
Complacency will not creep into defending champions' mentality
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has refused to be drawn into Roberto Mancini's title race mind games.
Mancini on Thursday stated Manchester City's
hopes of winning the Premier League would be over if this weekend his team fail to win at Arsenal and United overcome QPR.
City could go into the game at Emirates Stadium already trailing table-topping derby rivals United, who earlier on Sunday are favourites to win at home to the Loftus Road side, by eight points.
But Ferguson is not buying Mancini's equivalent of throwing in the towel in the title scrap and thinks it is a trick to lead defending Premier League champions United into complacency.
"I'm not getting into that. I don't need to get into that," said master of mind games Ferguson.
Nervousness
"We must concentrate on the game ahead and that's Queens Park Rangers. We'll focus on that, not worry about elsewhere."
United have taken 31 points from the last 33 available since losing at Newcastle in January and are considered to have an easier run-in to rivals City.
But Ferguson, who takes his side to the Etihad Stadium on 30th April, is taking nothing for granted.
"I wouldn't anticipate complacency (from my players). But I do think if your concentration is not 100 per cent, then there will be moments in games like we experienced recently against Fulham," he said.
"Four or five of our player gave the ball away in the space of about five minutes and it created a bit of nervousness.
"We survived that. I made the point that it was good for us to have that, because that is an indication of how the games are going to be between now and the end of the season."
