BIG FALL COMING?

Last updated : 12 February 2007 By Ed
Gary Neville on the success of the team so far this season and Saturday's stroll to three points.

"It was imperative we got back to keeping clean sheets," said Neville. "There was a period recently when we had some sloppy moments and we knew we needed to get rid of that.

"We've got some massive games coming up and we're going to need clean sheets. We're not going to score four every week.

"It might be that a 0-0 or a 1-0 are important results for us in the run-in, and keeping clean sheets is something that has been important in the run-in in the past."

“Teams are struggling to live with us right now.

“We are playing some of the best level of football seen for a few years and we have to maintain that.

“People talk about the pressure at the top but we are just enjoying our football right now.” He said.

“I think the squad is ready to win again. We've had three years where we've really suffered and not really performed to our capabilities.

“We've suffered with injuries in the last three years at important moments in the season.

"It's meant we've been so far behind and at times we've just not performed well, so I think the team has had enough of that and is ready to stay together and know what we need to do.

“We've matured in certain areas and some of the younger players are now producing incredible displays.

“I think without the injuries we've had in previous seasons, things have come together for us. After last Christmas, there were games in the last three or four months of last season, where I think we'd had enough.

“Every time we lost a game there was a huge amount of criticism in those two or three years. It became a bit of a witch-hunt. I think we'd had enough of that and we've turned it around.

“Old Trafford is a difficult place to play and I think it's back to being that now.”

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