MATCH QUOTES

Last updated : 08 January 2007 By Ed

Ferguson:

* "Henrik will continue to score important goals for us.

"There are goalscorers and then there are goalscorers who always manage to score the important goals throughout their career. Cantona was like that, Solskjaer has been doing that for a long time, and Henrik has always done it. He will prove a great signing for us over the next few months.

"We had to find out about his fitness. Playing at home in this game was a great chance to do that, and I am pleased with him. He's been looking terrific in training and he could have scored three or four goals. His movement, and his judgement of when to run and when not to run, was terrific."


* "I think we deserved to win the game because we made a host of chances, but you have to feel a bit for Villa."


* "I was tempted to go with both Henrik and Ole.

"But we took off one good finisher and put another one on.

"We always know when Ole is on the pitch you have a chance of scoring.

"I thought we were heading for a replay but we deserved the victory. We created a lot of chances and some of our football was terrific.

"We got the victory despite leaving out a number of players. There has been a bit of a bug going around the place."


* "That's his [OGS] ninth of the season. We took off one good finisher and put another one on.

"I thought we were heading for a replay but we deserved the victory.

"You know when Solskjaer is on the park there's always a chance of him scoring. We put him on for that to happen."


Larsson:

"In the first half I had two chances and should have done better with one of them so when I got the chance in the second I was pleased to score.

"You are always nervous when you start somewhere but as soon as I went out and saw the crowd I was fine.

"It's a bonus to be here for three months at my age and I'm going to enjoy every minute of it."


O'Neill:

* "People always used to ask me in Scotland if Henrik would score as many goals in England. My answer was always the same, he could score in any league he chooses, and he has showed that already."


* "I am grateful to Gabor [Villa's goalie who made the mistake with the winning goal] that coming down from Crystal Palace as we were down on numbers.

"He is downcast but that is the way it goes:

"United are always capable of scoring. We played our best football when we went behind and Milan took his goal splendidly."