Matic warning to Man Utd Champions League rivals

“So we have to stay positive and keep working as we were until now. Everything is in our hands. It’s in our hands, we have to recover as soon as possible.

“We have another game now, against a very good team again, so we have to go with everything because we want to play Champions League next season.

“I think we deserve that, so I want to say we work positively, recover well and we will see on Thursday if we are ready. I am sure the team is ready.

“Of course, three months ago it was not in our hands. We needed Chelsea and Leicester to drop points, which they did obviously. Now we are a point behind Chelsea and it’s in our hands.

“We’ll take it game by game. We’ll think about Palace first, then if we do our job there, like we normally do.”