Mata: United Must Improve Home Performances

Manchester United midfielder, Juan Mata, has said that his team must work hard to improve their performances at home.

United have only won six games at Old Trafford this season and have drawn 16 games.

The English Premier League club seem to perform much better when they are not playing at home. They are currently fifth on the log in the Premier League, four points behind rivals Manchester City.

They will have to overtake Man City if they wish to secure a place in the Champions League, and Juan Mata believes that can be done by performing better at home.

“We will fight until the end to be in the top four, and in order to do so we need mainly to get better at Old Trafford, at home…We have an opportunity the next weekend against the leaders Chelsea. It’s one of those games that everybody wants to play,” Mata wrote on his blog.

While a top-four finish in the English Premier League would be ideal for United, and a surefire way to secure a place in the Champions League, there is one other way that the Red Devils can lockdown a spot in the Champions League.

They have a chance to make it to the Champions League by winning the Europa League.

United will face Belgian side, Anderlecht, today in the quarter-finals of the first leg of the Europa League.