ARE YOU SURE?
Quinton Fortune's one of them:
"Individually every player wanted to do well and that was a small bit of payback and what the fans deserved.
"We needed to give them something after Saturday's game against City. We wanted to do well and I think we did.
"After the game on Saturday we all felt down and while we didn't play the best of football against Leverkusen, we all worked hard and enjoyed the result.
"We wanted to give something back to the fans because they suffered and we all suffered after Saturday.
"Unfortunately we have Keaney and Butty out and they are important players to the team but I always believe the players we have are capable of playing at this level.
"Whether we have Keaney or not we have got to prove we are good enough to play and that is all we have got to do now.
"I was happy. It was strange but the gaffer wanted me to do a job and while I don't think I played my best football, I just tried to do me best."
Brian McClair knows what it's like to lose a derby:
"It's something that you never forget. Fortunately, the nice thing about being involved in European football is that you don't have to wait a week for another game. They only had to wait until Wednesday to play again, and the performance they put in against Bayer Leverkusen was very good. So they've not really had a lot of time to dwell on it.
"People talk about the derby defeat not affecting some of the foreign players at United as much, but I think that all players when they reach that standard of play hate getting beat.
"Whether they feel it in the same sense that Gary and all the rest who have grown up being United supporters do, I'm not so sure about that, but when it comes down to a defeat they're all the same; they all feel it and I'm sure that the point has been driven home in the manager's selection for the game on Wednesday night.
"I felt terrible after our 5-1 defeat in 1989. Looking back on it, the
scoreline didn't reflect the game. Every single thing they did went in, and we had plenty of chances in the game that didn't go in. What I remember vividly about it was that we started the game quite brightly and there was a pitch invasion and we had to go off. We came back on, and maybe that little bit of momentum had gone. A couple of our defenders had nightmares.
"We used that as a focus point - it helped us with the future of the team spirit. It was always there, you could always remember how dreadful it was, how difficult it was having such a result rammed down your throat. I think that laid the foundations for the fact that City were unable to beat United for 13 years.
"I think all defeats and performances like that have an effect on you, especially coming from the manager who'll say 'let it be a lesson to you'. You never forget it. You never forget it even now. You think back and, when they got beat Saturday I was thinking 'I know how you feel'. For us it was worse than that because of the scoreline, and the fact that at that time we hadn't had any success, we were really struggling anyway, and to lose to City was a massive thing.
"It's always nice to get a little reminder of what's expected of you. When it comes from your local rivals it's always more painful and always more pertinent. I think that will make it all the more relevant for the manager to make his points on how he expects the players to play from here on in.
"You always try to pick out something positive from it, and for us that was 'don't let that happen to you again - remember what it was like that day', and we did that because the following season we were 3-1 down with ten minutes to go, we got back to 3-3 and could have sneaked a 4-3 win. I think that came from a change in spirit and attitude that emerged from the previous defeat and the manager will be looking for the same kind of reaction from his side this time."