"Before my injury, scoring lots of goals seemed completely normal to me," said van Nistelrooy. "But since I've come back I've realised it wasn't normal. Scoring a load of goals is okay, it is routine for some strikers. But scoring goals absolutely all the time, as I did last season, is something super-extreme. It has not been my season or United's. We just scored too few goals and, of course, I am responsible for that.
"Chelsea were really much better than us this season. And they did it the way United always tried to do it. Their positional play and their work for each other was terrific."