GARY NEVILLE: 'WE HAVE NOT DONE BADLY ALL SEASON'

Last updated : 08 March 2006 By Ed

"It is the Manchester United way.

"It is almost sadistic in the way we make it hard for ourselves but winning matches like we did [on Monday] sometimes give your confidence more of a lift than beating teams by three or four goals.

"We are renowned for getting late winners and it is something we have done a couple of times in the last month or so now, if you include the Premiership game against Liverpool.

"Without doubt, it is the best way to win a game. It gives you a great thrill and hopefully we can carry that feeling through into the remainder of the season.

"We have not done badly all season.

"We have only lost four times and I don't think our points tally is that ridiculous at this stage of the campaign.

"But we have been up against it for the last three years now because the team who has won the league has gone on an exceptional run.

"We cannot do anything about that, except try to reach that standard and in individual games this season we have proved we can beat anyone.

"What we are striving for is the consistency you achieve by grinding results out over a four and five-week period when maybe you are not doing so well.

"We are 15 points behind Chelsea now, with only 11 games remaining, so it does look like we won't be able to catch them.

"But they will drop points and we have to get nearer to them to at least make the table look better than it is now.

"We cannot just allow them to run away with the league. We need to get the gap down to single figures, put pressure on them and make them think about next season."