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MIDDLESBROUGH v MANCHESTER UNITED - SOUTHGATE DELIGHTED WITH PERFORMANCE
Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate was delighted with his side's performance, and warned United not to write them off ahead of the replay.
He said: "Everybody will have written us off - I think most people wrote us off before the game today, and we came very, very close to turning them over.
"When you are in the position we were in, you have the belief you are going to go on and win it.
"We had that belief all week that we could win the tie today, and that was the expectation once we went ahead with the way we have been playing.
"We played well in the second half and you think you are going to get there.
"We were obviously bitterly disappointed to concede, but we are still in there.
"We have got to remember they put their strongest side out today - that is a mark of the respect they have for us as a team.
"We have pushed them all the way again and we are still in there fighting."
Boateng was furious with the penalty award, although Southgate took a more philosophical view.
He said: "I have had a look at it again. At the time, I felt it was very harsh.
"He did raise his hands, the only thing I feel is he was only a yard away from him when it was flicked and it is very difficult for anybody to adjust their body in that split-second of time.
"But there we go, we do not complain about referees' decisions here afterwards. He gave it honestly and we have to live with that."
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