Chelsea snatch Man Utd draw in battle of Dutch managers

Chelsea’s Diego Costa gets round Manchester United’s goalkeeper…

United played the better football at Stamford Bridge and went ahead through Jesse Lingard’s superb strike on the hour but Chelsea’s Diego Costa equalised in the first minute of added time to leave United fifth on 41 points from 25 matches.

“We are unbeaten (since my appointment), but as I said before, if you want to get into fourth place, you must have victories”. I can have my family, I can have my friends, I can have my quiet life, which I also like, and I can have my football.

Unfortunately for him, Costa eluded him for the equaliser, riding the last-ditch challenge of Borthwick-Jackson before rounding the grounded De Gea and diverting the ball into the empty net.

Ramsey was also the architect of Arsenal’s second goal a minute later, slipping a pass wide to the overlapping Oxlade-Chamberlain, who drilled a low shot in off the left-hand post for his first away goal in five years.

United will be hugely disappointed not to earn all three points, but Chelsea turned the screw late in the day, and De Gea consistently needed to save his team.

Van Gaal has regularly been criticised over United’s tactics, but there was little wrong with the display in west London. “You have to study, study statistics”.

The former England defender has made it clear that Terry is adamant that he will not play for another Premier League club if he leaves Stamford Bridge and has been linked with a summer move to clubs in MLS, the Middle East and China.

It has been a truly very bad season for Chelsea, and with fourteen games left in the Premier League their chances of European qualification are slim.

“It is frustrating not a big disappointment because we played a very good match until the last quarter of the game”. I don’t think the guys they’re trying to buy are going to have the same influence he’s having at the moment. It is a pity because we had the chance to score more goals, we controlled the game.

They remain alive in the FA Cup and the Europa League, but were knocked out of the League Cup in round four and the Champions League in the group phase.

Bournemouth had not recovered before Ramsey sent Oxlade-Chamberlain through for his first league goal since September 2014 – and first away from home – with an angled drive.

“We were the better team but, again, we didn’t win”.

“The free-kicks – I don’t think that all of those were free-kicks but this referee gave them a lot of free-kicks at the end of the game”.