Each Monday, Juan Mata sits down to share his thoughts in his personal blog. Below is an extract from this week's musings...
As I write this I keep thinking about all the things that have happened in the last week…
And I do that still from the hotel room where I live since I arrived in Manchester a week ago. For the next posts I hope I can write from my own house; I’m looking forward to find it! I think it’s important to find a home as soon as possible and there are very nice areas to live here in Manchester.
As I already said, the reception from the club has been great, to be honest. Both my team-mates and the fans are making me feel very comfortable since the first day. In terms of football, we all hope to start a good run of results and to climb up the Premier League table.
The week started with a victory against Cardiff. It was my first game with United, and it was in Old Trafford. I can assure you that I will never forget that night. The reception from the fans was unbelievable. And the ovation when I was substituted, amazing. You get goose bumps…
Unfortunately, we didn’t win our second game of the week, in Stoke. It’s a tricky stadium, and the wind was not a good help to play football, but I honestly think we didn't deserve to lose. We were really unlucky with their first goal, and it reflects what the game was. We tied the score and we felt we could win, but right afterwards we conceded a second goal in a divided ball.
We had good chances, yet we couldn’t score. We went back home with no points, feeling that we just can’t lose this kind of game again. I hope that piece of luck we are missing will come to our side, because we are struggling even with injuries. In Stoke, our two centre-backs had to leave the pitch before half-time. However, as I said before, I’m sure we will start a good streak and get better results..