Alvaro Arbeloa addressed the challenge of competing against Manchester United.
The Red Devils picked up four points from their first four Premier League games, losing to newly promoted Hull City and 10-man Manchester City as well as drawing with a depleted Everton.
‘They have very talented and top players’
On Wednesday evening, the pressure piled up even further for the next opponents of Fulham as Michael Carrick watched his side throw away an early two-goal lead in an eventual 3-2 defeat to Brighton in the Carabao Cup third round. However, Arbeloa does not believe that the Cottagers can assume they will kick the ‘Big Six’ side while they are down without encountering any resistance.
“We are preparing for the game against Man United, and we are still believing that we can beat them, if we do a very good match from the first minute, and we know that we have to play at our best level – same level that we saw at Anfield – and that’s our target.
“When I see the players that they have, you can see they can win the game in one second. Marcus Rashford, Matheus Cunha, Bruno Fernandes, Youri Tielemans, the fullbacks like to go forward.
“They have very talented and top players and, of course, they are Man United, so you know what it means, and like I said before, if we want to beat them – and we believe that we can beat them – we need to play at the very high level that we did at Anfield for 90 minutes.
“Even doing that, we couldn’t beat Liverpool, we couldn’t beat Chelsea. In both games, we did really well. So, we are facing one of the best teams in the world, we know that, and we need to be ready.
“Fulham is important, and I think our supporters deserve one victory against Man United. I know that is so difficult, and the last time that we beat them here at Craven Cottage was too many years ago, so we will give our best and try to give them a victory.”
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