Duke University Sports Psychologist Greg Dale used to always stress to our players "don't let the things you can't control affect the things that you can." Even after two consecutive league defeats, Manchester United's Ryan Giggs still prescribes to that theory.
Back to back defeats to Liverpool and Fulham has seen Manchester United's English Premier League lead slip back to one point (with a game at hand) over Liverpool. Even with their sluggish form, Giggs still remains upbeat.
"We're obviously disappointed with the result," Giggs told MUTV. "After losing last weekend, we wanted to come here and put on a good performance."
"We didn't do that in the first half - our passing was sloppy and our movement wasn't good enough. We just couldn't get it going, the tempo wasn't good."
"Going a goal behind and down to ten men, we had to arrange our shape a little bit differently. We came out and played a lot better in the second half. We were on top, we created some good chances and their keeper made a couple of good saves. Had one of those efforts gone in then we could have gone on to win it but it wasn't to be."
With Manchester United still being a point up on Liverpool with the game at hand, Giggs knows that United still control their own destiny, and need to focus on their own task at hand.
"We've got to do our own job, not worry about the teams around us. It's still in our hands."
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Back to back defeats to Liverpool and Fulham has seen Manchester United's English Premier League lead slip back to one point (with a game at hand) over Liverpool. Even with their sluggish form, Giggs still remains upbeat.
"We're obviously disappointed with the result," Giggs told MUTV. "After losing last weekend, we wanted to come here and put on a good performance."
"We didn't do that in the first half - our passing was sloppy and our movement wasn't good enough. We just couldn't get it going, the tempo wasn't good."
"Going a goal behind and down to ten men, we had to arrange our shape a little bit differently. We came out and played a lot better in the second half. We were on top, we created some good chances and their keeper made a couple of good saves. Had one of those efforts gone in then we could have gone on to win it but it wasn't to be."
With Manchester United still being a point up on Liverpool with the game at hand, Giggs knows that United still control their own destiny, and need to focus on their own task at hand.
"We've got to do our own job, not worry about the teams around us. It's still in our hands."
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11661_5088725,00.html
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