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Young apologises and promises United response in 'important' Manchester derby

The Red Devils will not be short of motivation for a derby clash with title-chasing City, he says.

ASHLEY YOUNG HAS promised Manchester United will deliver a response when they try to put a dent in Manchester City’s Premier League title hopes this week.

United produced their worst performance of the season in a crushing 4-0 defeat at Everton on Sunday, with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side having now lost six of their past eight games in all competitions.

They are two points outside the top four with four league games to go, but Wednesday’s game at Old Trafford offers United the chance to hurt City’s chances of defending their title while boosting their Champions League hopes.

Solskjaer and goalkeeper David de Gea apologised to United’s supporters for the substandard display at Goodison Park – their fifth straight away defeat in all competitions – and Young followed suit as he vowed to make amends against City.

“We’ve just got to apologise to the fans and we’ve got a tough one coming up on Wednesday with the Manchester derby,” Young told MUTV.

“We know how important that’s going to be. If you can’t get yourselves up for the Manchester derby, there’s something wrong.

“I’ve got confidence that we’re going to be ready for Wednesday. It’s a disappointing day today [Sunday] but we’ve got to dust ourselves down fairly quickly and go again this week.”

United host Chelsea next Sunday before their last two matches of the season against teams in the bottom three of the Premier League, away to already relegated Huddersfield Town and at home to Solskjaer’s old side Cardiff City on the last day.

“It’s four games, it’s four winnable games,” Young added. “If you’d said in October we would be in this position, we’d have taken it, but a club like Manchester United, we should be looking much further up the table.

“We’ve got four games left, we’ve got four wins to get. It’s going to be tough but I’m sure we can do it. We were 4-0 down and [the fans] were still singing. They’ve been fantastic, and we’ve got to go and put a performance in on Wednesday.”

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    Mute Chris Mcdonnell
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    May 18th 2015, 2:32 PM

    Even when on the bench he didn’t get game time. The coach doesn’t like or trust him. Saturday once again showed just how wrong O’connor has been all season

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    Mute Colin Webber
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    May 18th 2015, 6:24 PM

    O’Connor is just all wrong for Leinster.

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    May 18th 2015, 2:31 PM

    He has a very big chance next season with Leinster during the World Cup, midfield won’t be as competitive so he should get a good run of matches.

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    Mute Chris Mcdonnell
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    May 18th 2015, 6:56 PM

    Mark if Darcy doesn’t make the World Cup squad, he’ll play 12 with t’eo at 13. Then Madigan and sexton will be back so the midfield won’t be as easy to get into as you may think

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    Mute David Davidson
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    May 18th 2015, 4:27 PM

    That pop pass from O’Brien

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    May 18th 2015, 2:54 PM

    Battle between him and Madigan for the 12 jersey next season.

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    May 19th 2015, 4:02 AM

    It’s always to easy to see who coaches ‘just like/don’t like’. When Gopperth played badly it was ignored whereas when Madigan played mediocre or even if Reid played well decisions went against them.

    It creates such a poisonous culture as some players start to feel entitled to spots and others feel it doesn’t matter how well they play they won’t get picked. Cody and Fergusson were masters at disregarding players identities and judging on match performance alone. MOC is such a stink manager.

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