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Chelsea hungrier than United - Cole

ESPN staff
May 5, 2011
Ashley Cole holds off Park Ji-sung © PA Photos
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Ashley Cole believes he will leave Manchester United's players trailing in his wake when Chelsea bid to derail their rivals' Premier League title challenge on Sunday.

The champions looked to have let their title defence slip from their grasp, but a run of eight wins from their last nine league matches has seen them close in on United, who wobbled with defeat at Arsenal last weekend.

Chelsea have already clawed back a 15-point deficit and a win at Old Trafford on Sunday would see them overhaul their rivals on goal difference. United may have home advantage, but Cole believes the Blues' form has seen him approach matches with more confidence.

"Now I go into games thinking, 'Let's see if you can stop me running' or, 'I'm going to make you chase me', rather than the other way around," Cole told Chelsea Magazine.

"Instead of thinking about how they're going to get past me they're going to be looking over their shoulders to see where I am.

"When you win things, that's what makes you realise how good it is," Cole said. "I think the pressure is what drives people on. It makes you want to prove something, to carry on going and keep on winning things. I just want to win anything because I love the feeling.

"When you stop getting that feeling, I think that's when a lot of players tend to stop playing because they haven't got the desire anymore. I've still got many years of that desire left in me and players we have here are all the same as me in that respect."

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