Mata focused on European goal
In his latest weekly blog, Juan Mata reflects on United's 0-0 draw with Newcastle and looks ahead to the Champions League second-leg with Club Brugge in Belgium...
It’s still August but the activity is very intense already and there is no time for celebration or mourning. As you know, our goal last week was to keep our winning streak, but we couldn’t make it. We got a good result against Club Brugge, especially if you take into account that things had turned bad after an unfortunate goal against us. Then the team showed character to come back, but we know there is still a lot of work to do in the second leg this coming Wednesday. We are really looking forward to it, we want to play a good game and seal our passport to the top competition in Europe.
As I was saying, we weren’t able to get another three points in the Premier League. The goalless draw against Newcastle last Saturday left us with a bad taste; personally I think we deserved to win but that doesn’t count. In my opinion the team had spells of our best football so far this season, and we created enough chances to score at least one goal.
From a personal point of view, I felt very comfortable and was able to participate a lot, but I went home enraged for not being able to win, same as my team-mates. We need to win this kind of game if we want to be more consistent than last season. The good news is that we are strong in defence and we haven’t conceded a goal in the Premier League. Seven points out of nine is not a bad start, we have to be positive and keep moving forward. As I said before, it’s time to focus on our final in Belgium and try to get our first main goal of the season.
Read the rest of Juan's blog, including his thoughts on the opening weekend of matches in La Liga, his local team Real Oviedo and the World Athletics Championships here.
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