Manchester United legend Peter Schmeichel doesn’t believe his former club have enough in their locker to win the Premier League title this season, despite Sunday’s win over Liverpool. “We have done better than years before at this ground and showed we can fight even when we miss certain players”.
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“In the second half we did what we had to do”. Sometimes you play well and get beat and now it is about how we react with a home game in the Cup on Wednesday [the Exeter replay] and away to Norwich on Saturday, which will not be easy.
Van Gaal said: “It is seven points and seven points we can overcome that”.
Jurgen Klopp says his choice of Roberto Firmino to lead the line for Liverpool was the “smallest of all our problems” against Manchester United on Sunday.
“We have to keep going right until the very end of the season and see what happens, take each game as it comes, and see whether we are in the mix or not”.
“The goal came from the first indirect corner and we ask for that as it always more unsafe”.
“I think everyone knows the importance of this game, regardless of positions”, he said.
“We played better but feel frustrated because there were many things that were good but our finishing was not good, otherwise we would have scored a goal”.
Manchester United fans, players and team officials should be happy with their 1-0 victory over Liverpool at Anfield today.
Van Gaal has many critics among United fans, but has given them at least four reasons to smile since taking over at Old Trafford four wins in four league games against Liverpool.
Despite this, Klopp refused to attribute his side’s defeat to the performance of the Spaniard, and instead highlighted Liverpool’s failure to create and convert even more chances than they had.
“A striker who scores is always very important and now he is scoring in a row and we are winning in a row”, the Dutchman said after United’s third win in four games.
“I don’t think David De Gea has done very much, two or three balls he has to stop, a goalkeeper has to do that”.
“They had chances but we defended well and scored a fantastic goal”, the Spaniard added.
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“It was an important win for us”. For the goal we lost Fellaini…bar.
