De Ligt: We fought hard for the win

Manchester United came from a goal behind and then going down to 10 men to beat Ipswich on Wednesday evening. It was Matthijs de Ligt who scored United’s second goal and was delighted with his contribution when speaking to the club’s official site.

I think it was a hard-fought win. I think as you said in the second half with ten men, [we were] fighting and even scoring is a really good achievement from us in that second half. Even the first half we didn’t even play that bad, we just conceded two silly goals. Obviously this always can happen in football. But in general we made some improvements compared to the last game.

We have a lot of strengths at set-pieces with our heights and the crosses that we have from Bruno. I am happy that today we could score two goals like that. It was a shot from Diogo and I saw that the goalkeeper was bouncing it, pushing it towards me. Then, like you said, the defender was quite close so I tried to hit it high into the goal and luckily it went over his leg so it was a [good] goal.

This was a really important game for us. Obviously we know what situation we are in and if you are in at half-time with ten men, 2-2, it is going to be a difficult second half. So I think it is a really important win for us and hopefully we can continue [that] against Fulham.