The build-up to Wednesday's encounter promised much, with both sides harbouring title ambitions.
Unfortunately, the action on the field failed to deliver, with a tame goalless draw doing little to capture the imagination.
Clear-cut chances proved to be few and far between throughout, with defences very much on top.
United boss Ferguson admitted afterwards that City, who opted to pack the midfield, got their game plan just about spot on, with the Red Devils unable to offer any penetration in the final third.
"City are always difficult to beat on their own ground, and that was obviously going to be the case the way they set their stall out second half," he told Sky Sports.
"I think there was too much tension for it to be the kind of match people thought it would be. But I was pleased with the control we had of the game and some of our football was very good.
"We were very confident and composed on the ball but we needed to make chances, we needed to win the match and in that sense we only had two chances, one in the first half and one in the second half. That was a disappointment."
He added: "They set their stall out very well in the second half and made it difficult for us to break them down. They are very powerful and experienced in that way.
"Chelsea have come here and lost and they were a bit unlucky with the man sent off early on against Arsenal, it may have been a difficult scoreline, so they were always going to be difficult to beat on their own ground."
With Chelsea having overcome Fulham at Stamford Bridge in midweek, United find themselves four points adrift of the league leaders after 12 games.
Ferguson, though, feels that a hard-fought draw away from home against their arch-rivals was not a bad result for his side.
He said: "It's a decent result. We don't count draws coming away from home as a target, our target was to win the game.
"I think we had enough possession to do that, but getting that goal to win the match was just beyond us."
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