Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson insists he has total confidence in Dimitar Berbatov.

The £30.75million Bulgarian was left on the bench for Manchester United's crunch Champions League clash with Bayern Munich and remained there until 10 minutes from time, even after Wayne Rooney had gone off and his side were slipping to a narrow quarter-final exit.

"Yes, I still trust him," said Ferguson. "He is a good player and there is absolutely no reason why we should doubt that.

"Dimitar he has done well in a lot of games recently but we prefer to play with one striker.

"When we got the man sent off on Wednesday there was no need to bring a striker on because all we were trying to do was go over the line in terms of defending."