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Tyrone Marshall

Bruno Fernandes sends message to Manchester United teammates over Champions League hopes

After their capitulation at Goodison Park a year ago Manchester United would have left Merseyside satisfied on Sunday, earning a 1-1 draw that highlighted their improvement under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer .

But new addition Bruno Fernandes was no part of that 4-0 thrashing last season and rather than see the positives from Sunday's result, in which he scored his third goal in five games for the club, he saw plenty of room for improvement.

The point extended United's unbeaten run in all competitions to eight games and kept them within three points of Chelsea in fourth, but the £47million January signing was angry at the failure to grasp all three points.

United responded well to Dominic Calvert-Lewin's bizarre opening goal and responded through Fernandes in the first half, but the Portuguese insists one point should have been three if they are to close that gap on Chelsea.

Both sides resume their assault on a place in the Champions League on Sunday, with Chelsea facing Everton and United hosting Manchester City, and Fernandes is aware how much improvement his own side need to do.

"With this draw, we need to be a little bit mad, because we need to do much better," he said.

“We need to win the games, because we want a place in the Champions League.

“So we need to try more, to improve more, and I think in the next games we will be much better.”

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