GARY NEVILLE – EVERY UNITED GAME IS A MUST WIN

Last updated : 21 October 2004 By editor

Gary Neville:

"I've never played a game for Manchester United in 11 years where it's acceptable not to win at home. It is unthinkable not to win any home game and there is no way that should change because Arsenal are coming. That is the way United have been for 70 or 80 years not just the last decade."

"Over the last year and a half, Arsenal have been in a fantastic run of form but they haven't beaten Manchester United in that time. We are confident of our abilities against the top teams. It was not just winning the FA Cup semi-final last season; we played well in the League at Highbury, we played well at Old Trafford and missed a penalty in the last minute. These games go in cycles and if we can get a goal it can change the whole outlook.

"There is no score to settle, all we have to do on Sunday is win a football match. We are not going to go into the game thinking about what happened last year or three years ago. We have to win a football match in front of our own fans.

"And whether it's against Arsenal on Sunday or whoever, we have got to start picking up points. We can't keep asking other teams to beat Arsenal if we are not going to do it ourselves.

"There is no doubt we have the players who can get us the goals, we just have to keep putting the ball into the correct areas. We got into better situations on Tuesday night than we did at Birmingham on Saturday but we are not getting the breaks.

"I'm confident it will come pretty quickly, so on Sunday we'll be looking to get the early goal that would be so useful to us. If we can do that, I'm sure we will be okay."