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It was Villas-Boas's first league defeat since April 2010 when he was in his first post at Academica, after an unbeaten season with Porto last year, but he remains upbeat due to an encouraging, if frustrating performance and a long league campaign that promises to throw up the unexpected.
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'Normally when you create 21 opportunities at Old Trafford you should come away with at least a point and a couple were very good opportunities so I think 3-0 at half-time is crazy, If the 1-1 [from Ramires] goes in it is a different story. Before 1-0 we had a good chance as well. It was a chaotic game and to be fair a very open game.
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'It didn't fall our way in every kind of the word, not only in goalscoring opportunities but referee or linesman decisions, not that I am looking for any excuse but it is the reality and they influenced the game. It's a 2-0 instead of a 0-0 or whatever. I am pretty unhappy with how the linesman performed but these things happen in the game.'
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'Arsenal lost and Liverpool lost, so all five contenders for there and anything can happen. The most regular has been United but we showed we are up to the levels of the champions - it is just this time this game didn't go our way but we will be up there competing for the title and I am glad sir Alex corroborates in this opinion.'
AVB
