Goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar praised Aston Villa for the way they "made life difficult" for United in the goalless draw at Villa Park.Martin O'Neil's side stuck to a largely defensive gameplan to frustrate the champions and claim the point which moves them above Arsenal into fourth in the table.
Van der Sar said: "We were playing Aston Villa and although all the papers were talking about our unbeaten record there, it's still a hard place to go to.
"Villa are doing very well this year and they proved that they have the quality to play football and make life difficult. "They played well but we were strong at the back.
We made one or two blocks and I made a couple of saves. In the last 10 minutes we hoped they would get a little tired and we could push on and score a winner."We tried our best and had a couple of chances but not enough to get the win."
Van der Sar knows United have so far had a difficult fixture list to contend with and is confident of clawing back an eight-point deficit on Liverpool and Chelsea in the second half of the campaign."We've had some tough away fixtures but we have to play everyone at some point," the Dutchman added.
"We just have to make sure we stay at this distance or a little closer and then hopefully at the turn of the year we can push on."
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