English Premier League: Don’t write off ‘hurting’ United yet, says David Moyes

Red Devils draw 2-2 against bottom club Fulham at Old Trafford.

MANCHESTER: Manchester United manager David Moyes insists his team still believe they can trouble the Premier League’s best sides despite their miserable start to 2014.

They drew their last match 2-2 at home to bottom club Fulham on Sunday, and are currently nine points adrift of fourth-placed Liverpool as they travel to Arsenal on Wednesday hoping to get their push for a Champions League place back on track.

But despite failing to beat teams like Swansea, Stoke, Sunderland and Fulham since the start of the year, Moyes maintains he still has confidence in his players.



“We just go into the next game and take the teams on and challenge them,” he said.

“We’ve got a good team and there will be very few teams desperate to play Manchester United.

“They players are really good professionals in the way they go about their work and what I see in training makes me feel they’ll get results.”

United have now failed to win seven of their 13 home matches in the league this season.

Meanwhile, Tim Sherwood believes Tottenham will qualify for the Champions League if Emmanuel Adebayor continues to produce the kind of lethal finishing that earned a crucial 1-0 win against Everton.

If Tottenham do finish in the top four, Sherwood is convinced Adebayor will have a significant role to play.

“It’s all about how he is being managed,” said Sherwood. “He is a good character. Every striker will have a sticky patch but I’m just delighted with him at the moment.”

Dreamer Hazard gunning for West Brom

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho may have played down his side’s title chances, but in-form forward Eden Hazard admits that he has been dreaming of winning the league.

Hazard’s hat-trick in the 3-0 win over Newcastle United on Saturday means that Mourinho’s side will travel to West Bromwich Albion on Tuesday a point clear at the head of the table with a third of the season remaining.

The run-in is about to gather pace and the winger has revealed that thoughts of lifting the championship trophy are already disturbing his sleep.

“We’re top of the league,” Hazard told Chelsea TV. “I go in my bed, I dream. I hope at the end of the season it will be the same. It’s a pleasure to play for this team and to work for that [title].”

While Chelsea are on an outstanding run that has yielded eight wins and two draws in their last 10 league games, they face a West Brom side who slid into the bottom three following their weekend loss at Crystal Palace.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 11^th, 2014.

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