Ryan Giggs opens up on what Cristiano Ronaldo refused to do for Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United

Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs has claimed Cristiano Ronaldo never tracked back at Old Trafford, forcing Sir Alex Ferguson to change his system against big teams. Speaking about Scot's thought-process, Giggs told beIN Sports' The Champions Club: "The players who get away with it are the ones who are match-winners, who will win you more games so you let them get away with it. Cristiano was like that, so what Sir Alex would do, he would play an extra man in midfield, against the likes of Arsenal who were just as good as us. But he would put Darren Fletcher against Ashley Cole because he knew Ronaldo wasn't going to [track back]. I first witnessed it playing against Barcelona and it was [Luis] Figo and I said to Sir Alex because Figo kept getting on the ball, it was Dennis Irwin kept bombing forward playing our normal game - I said 'Gaffer he's cheating'. He's not cheating, he's clever, he's intelligent because when the ball breaks down and the full backs have gone forward, Figo's free and he didn't track back and the other players didn't expect him to track back. Whereas if we didn't track the players would be going crazy so there's players like Hazard, Messi, there's Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar they're all match winners. If you are top player, you can get away with it, but you have to be special and you have to win more games than you lose."

Source: Mirror 

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