GeordieMancunian
13-02-2007, 01:43 AM
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Gary Neville believes the United squad are ready to reclaim the Premiership title after three seasons of hurt.
The Reds have seen first Arsenal and then Chelsea twice storm to Championship glory since United's last title triumph in 2003.
This season has been a different story, however, with the Reds having lead the way at the Premiership summit since mid-October.
"Teams are struggling to live with us right now," insists the United skipper. 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.
"I think the squad is ready to win it again," he adds. "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."
Neville points to the growing maturity of United's young starlets as the key to the team's success this season.
"We've matured in certain areas and some of the younger players are now producing incredible displays," he explains.
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."
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Last 11 games of the season:-
24th Feb Fulham (A) - Winable (Won 5-1 last time)
3rd Mar Liverpool (A) - Tough but winable (won last time)
17th Mar Bolton (H) - Winable
31st Mar Blackburn (H) - Winable
7th Apr Pompy (A) - Winable
10th Apr Sheff Utd (H) - Winable - more than capable of
15th Apr Chelsea (A) - Tough but if we can maintain lead then win or lose, we are still top of table
21th Apr Boro (H) - Winable
28th Apr Everton (A) - Winable (POSSIBLE TITLE WINNING IF WE WON ALL PREVIOUS MATCHES)
5th May Man City (A) - Winable
13th May West Ham (H) - Winable - MAN UTD 2006/2007 CHAMPIONS!!!!!
Gary Neville believes the United squad are ready to reclaim the Premiership title after three seasons of hurt.
The Reds have seen first Arsenal and then Chelsea twice storm to Championship glory since United's last title triumph in 2003.
This season has been a different story, however, with the Reds having lead the way at the Premiership summit since mid-October.
"Teams are struggling to live with us right now," insists the United skipper. 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.
"I think the squad is ready to win it again," he adds. "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."
Neville points to the growing maturity of United's young starlets as the key to the team's success this season.
"We've matured in certain areas and some of the younger players are now producing incredible displays," he explains.
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."
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/2884/barclaycardpremiershipcvj3.jpg
Last 11 games of the season:-
24th Feb Fulham (A) - Winable (Won 5-1 last time)
3rd Mar Liverpool (A) - Tough but winable (won last time)
17th Mar Bolton (H) - Winable
31st Mar Blackburn (H) - Winable
7th Apr Pompy (A) - Winable
10th Apr Sheff Utd (H) - Winable - more than capable of
15th Apr Chelsea (A) - Tough but if we can maintain lead then win or lose, we are still top of table
21th Apr Boro (H) - Winable
28th Apr Everton (A) - Winable (POSSIBLE TITLE WINNING IF WE WON ALL PREVIOUS MATCHES)
5th May Man City (A) - Winable
13th May West Ham (H) - Winable - MAN UTD 2006/2007 CHAMPIONS!!!!!