“When you win and when you play good football, confidence grows”, he said. “I had this same problem once and it hurts”.
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Quina has already been capped by Portugal at the Under-17 level and has been a key part of Chelsea’s youth set-up over the last three seasons after being recruited from Benfica.
The stalemate against Chelsea leaves United fifth on the table, six points adrift of the coveted fourth place position that would guarantee Champions football next season.
Only then was United’s David de Gea forced into his first real saves, from Branislav Ivanovic and Cesc Fabregas. When that was pointed out to Van Gaal in a soft post-match question, the manager wrongly interpreted it as a further contrast between the current struggles and the glory-filled period under Ferguson.
Lingard was understandably disappointed Chelsea denied United, who were the superior side for the majority of the match.
Minutes later United were ahead when Lingard, who had his back to goal, controlled Cameron Borthwick-Jackson’s cross from the left before turning and striking the ball into the corner and past the dive of Courtois.
“We’ve got a big squad with lots of games coming up in different competitions”. After more than five hours without a league goal, Arsenal scored two in little more than a minute midway through the first half by Mesut Ozil and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.
“We continued with our good, attacking football”, Van Gaal added. It was three hard points, but three very important points for us because we had not won for a while.
“Leicester running away and us playing them next week, (makes) the game interesting”, Wenger said. The late equalizer will be a bitter pill for LVG, but this was another good performance from his side, carrying on from the impressive 3-0 win over Stoke in the week.
Bournemouth, playing their first season in the Premier league, remain 15th, five points above the relegation places.
Ozil opened the scoring in the 23rd minute, skilfully slamming home right-footed after Olivier Giroud nodded down Aaron Ramsey s flighted pass to claim his first goal since the 2-0 win over Bournemouth on December 28. Peeling away from a sprawling Daley Blind, Costa was afforded two bites of the cherry after his first shot was blocked, making no mistake from close range at the second time of asking to earn his side a precious point.
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“If you give a team like Arsenal time on the ball they will punish you”.
