Captain van der Sar

Edwin van der Sar: “I really don’t know how we managed to get the three points here. And I also don’t know why we can’t perform better. We really really want to. The intentions are there. Man, we escaped here…”

He also had a justification for the disallowed goal: “It was obvious that before Melchiot went up for that ball, he got a push from behind. The result was that he couldn’t head the ball how he wanted to. He did head it pretty good, though, it was out of my reach…”

Ruud van Nistelrooy: “In the last seconds we finally get a ball in from the wings, and that ball falls exactly right for me, and bang…goal.”