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Chris Smalling says Man Utd are keen to make up for this mistake!

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Chris Smalling is confident there will be no repeat of Manchester United’s heavy Premier League loss to Chelsea when the sides meet in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge on Monday.

Smalling’s side lost 4-0 to Chelsea when the two met in the Premier League, and the defender aims to avoid a similar embarrassment in the FA Cup tie between the two.

“Chelsea have been by far the most consistent team in the league and they deserve to be in the position where they are now,” Smalling, who was part of the United team that won the FA Cup last season, told MUTV.

“But I think we are on a good run and we will give a much better account of ourselves than we did last time.”

“In hindsight, it was probably not the game I should have played in,” Smalling said. “But as a player you try to push yourself and force yourself to play in all sorts of games.

“That was a big one and I am a player who doesn’t want to miss those games.

“In the lead-up to that week, we had drawn with Liverpool and won in Europe too, so we were starting to build up momentum.

“Then that game at Chelsea completely knocked us – it was definitely one of our worst performances of the season. But from then on we have kicked on and done a lot better.

“I think we all learned a lot of things from that game and, not only do we have progress in this competition to play for, we also have our pride as well.”#

“The FA Cup is a tough trophy to defend and looking at previous records, not many people have been able to do it and I know United haven’t,” Smalling said.

“So to be a part of history by retaining the cup would be brilliant.

“We’re in the quarter-finals already and we can see the finishing line is not too far away if we play as well as we can.”

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