Gary Neville says Manchester United must push on from their 2-0 win over Manchester City and finish a ‘good second’ this season.
United are still 11 points behind City but they can take great confidence from a deserved victory over the champions-elect featuring goals from Bruno Fernandes (pen) and Luke Shaw. You can read 16 Conclusions on the game here.
“We know they’re not quite ready yet [to win the title] and that’s proven over the last couple of months but finish the season well,” the Sky Sports pundit said on the Gary Neville Podcast.
“I’ve talked today about finishing a poor second or a good second. A poor second is whereby it fades out towards the end of the season and becomes a bit of a poor league, City win it easily, and you end up 20 points off and you’re nowhere near still.
“Whereas actually if you can go and get within seven or eight points of City it will count for something. When Liverpool were chasing City down over that two or three, four years, they were getting closer every single year.
“These 10 games Man Utd have left are really important. They’ve got to finish a good second. They could be caught by Leicester and other teams but I do think they’re the second-best team in the country this season.
“If they’re not to finish second it would be a real problem but if they are going to finish second be a good second, not a poor second.
“They need to think about how they catch this Man City team in the long term. Winning today will make them feel good tonight and City will feel bad about it but at the end of the season it will be Man City lifting the trophy and those Man Utd players and the manager have to work out how they get onto that podium because that’s the only thing that matters.
“There were many times during a season where we lost games against our rivals but at the end we were holding the trophy up and nobody remembered the games we lost in, they just remembered who won the trophy.
“Short term gain for Man Utd, and a good moment, and a surprising moment from where they’ve been this week in their performances. For City, they have to pick themselves up.
“I’m a little delirious at this moment in time because I didn’t expect what I was going to see today. City have been outstanding this last couple of months.”
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