Michael Carrick, "Five clean sheets on the trot is a great achievement. I know we play good football with plenty of flair but a lot of our game is based on how we defend. The back four and Edwin van der Sar have had a lot of credit lately and rightly so.
"But right from the front, I think everyone is doing their job defensively really well. We are very solid and we want to continue that because we will always create chances with the forward players we have.
"It was so early in the season, we just felt it was important to keep on doing what we had been. We were playing well enough, we just had to wait until the results turned around. We got on to a run of 1-0s and it looked like it was going to be the same against Chelsea. But we finally got another one, so we will take that and move on."
Ryan Giggs, "We're capable of going on a run, and hopefully we're in the middle of that run now. Hopefully we can go on a winning run of 10 or 12 games. We're keeping clean sheets, whether it's 1-0, 2-0 or 5-0. As long as we're not conceding goals, that will give us a great chance of retaining the title."