Mata Aims To Finish 2016 With A Flourish

Each and every Monday during the season, Manchester United star Juan Mata pens a personal blog about matches and other news and events from the past week. In this 28 November post, he says we cannot keep blaming bad luck for dropping points and targets a winning run in the remaining eight games this year...

Hi everyone,

It’s very late on Sunday night, but not enough time has passed to digest the draw against West Ham, to be honest. This 1-1 would be easier to take if it came after a winning streak, but this is not the case.

A few days ago, we beat Feyenoord in a good game. We were playing to stay in the Europa League and the team delivered; we enjoyed ourselves on the pitch and scored several goals. So far in the Premier League, though, we haven’t found that consistency, that winning streak that is so much needed and that we’re working so hard to achieve.

When we seem to be close to a victory, it just slips away… I’m talking mainly about the Premier League games at Old Trafford, which is even more upsetting because playing in front of our fans is an extra, and that’s how we feel.

We know we must find the target more often to score more goals. We are doing what is more difficult: being able to create those chances, and now we have to take them. I’m having a look at the calendar and I see that we have eight games to play before the end of the year. In my opinion, having so many games in such a short period is something positive because we are eager to play again.

Starting with the EFL Cup, again with West Ham, and then visiting Everton next weekend. Two good games would help us to approach the Christmas season with more optimism. That would be very important because these few weeks are going to be very demanding, and every single team in the competition will struggle to get good results.

Thanks for your support.

Hugs,

Juan

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