GARY NEVILLE has sent blunt warning Manchester United ahead of Saturday evening’s pivotal derby clash, simply saying: “Don’t lose FFS!”
Pep Guardiola‘s men can clinch the Premier League title with a win at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday evening.
But Old Trafford legend Nev has urged his former team to at least delay the inevitable with a snap of him celebrating at the Etihad in 2010.
He took to Instagram to share the clip of him running, arms aloft, after Paul Scholes’ 93rd-minute winner, captioned: “Don’t lose FFS!”
Meanwhile Mourinho told Sky Sports he sees no extra motivation for the derby clash in merely stopping City from winning the title.
The United boss revealed: “We have enough motivation by being professionals, with the normal desire to try to fight, try to win every match.
“On top of that, we want to finish second, because it’s the position where we’ve been in for a long, long time, in such a difficult league with so many top clubs coming behind us.
“So we have enough motivation for that, and our focus is to try to get the points for that. It’s an important one.
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“And in this case, it’s really important, because we need to finish top four. There is no second option.
“We would prefer to finish second than fourth, so we are going to fight for the points.
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“I think the most important thing is to win the title, or not win the title, and they are going to win the title, and we are not going to win the title.
“That’s the most important thing.
“If it’s tomorrow, if it’s next week, next month, the important thing is they are going to win the title, we are not.
So I don’t play with this in my mind, because it’s something very objective and pragmatic.
“The only thing in my mind is we want points, we are going to fight for points, because we need them for our objective, and at the moment our objective is not to be champions.”
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