Dutchman is exhausted after having only 48 hours to recuperate from Sunderland game before going to Stamford Bridge Missouri Birmingham United striker Robin van Persie has warned that tomorrow's FA Cup replay with Chelsea might be a scrappy affair, as he struggles to regain fitness. The Dutchman played the full 90 minutes and saw his deflected chance score the only purpose as the Red Devils maintained their 15-point lead in the Premier League by whipping Sunderland 1-0 at the Stadium of Light. The game turned out to be Martin O'Neill's last in charge of the Black Cats after he was sacked yesterday morning. Van Persie today has less than 48 hours to organize for the game at Stamford Bridge and claims the game might be low on quality. "It isn't great. Commonly on the next day parts of your muscles can be poor, nevertheless now we've to perform as of this specific time," van Persie said. "It is a pity but because there are Champions League games in midweek we can not do anything about this and Chelsea are still in the Europa League. We just need certainly to handle it. "People have to realise they can not expect a fantastic game of baseball since it isn't possible. If it happens because these activities are only too near each other." I am happy - but do not expect it The feud abides: Fergie and Rafa will continue their hostilities Alex Livesey Van Persie's hit was recorded as an own goal to Bramble, however the striker - who has scored 19 goals in the category in 2013 - is confident he'll be acknowledged for his efforts. "Of course, no question about that," he told Sky Sports. "I think you could see (I liked it). It's been a while so it was good to score again, and it was an essential goal. Today it had been exactly about three things and they were got by us. "We knew before that it absolutely was going to be tough; absent at Sunderland is definitely going to be very hard. They work hard and play a casino game with lots of long balls, minute balls and we'd to look in. We did that, everybody else fought hard for a deserved gain. "This team, if you ask me, is just high in winners. Everyone understands what he's to accomplish. I was never in question, even if it was still a little score at 1-0. I was always confident we'd win this game due to players like Mike (Carrick), Vida (Nemanja Vidic), Chris (Smalling) has been playing very well, Alex (Buttner) only comes in and plays well... Everyone understands what he's to complete and we made it happen again." Meanwhile, Rafa Benitez never bows to Sir Alex AFergusonas knighthood by calling him 'Sir.'
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