Slav and the boys are ready to rumble

Manager Slaven Bilic has given the players AND FANS a pre-match pep talk declaring: “We are ready.”

Speaking on the official site he said: “After last week’s disappointing defeat at Tottenham, we are ready to go Manchester United today and try to respond well and pick up a good result. We are training well and we’re ready.

The Spurs game gave me and the players a lot of positives. We have trained well all week and lifted ourselves and we have to now play away against one of the biggest clubs.

At the end of the day, we didn’t lose a cup final to Spurs, but it really hurt. It was a massive game in terms of a London derby and we lost it in a very disappointing way.

And if again in five or ten years you ask me about it, I’ll still say how disappointing it was. But we have to take the positives. Manchester United also played on Thursday, and we didn’t.”