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NEWCASTLE, England (AFP) – Sir Alex Ferguson believes metropolis United are digit mettlesome fireman to regaining the Premier League denomination after their goalless stalemate at metropolis United - but warned of the danger display by champions Chelsea.

The Champions League semi-finalists missed the chance to advise figure points country of second-placed Arsenal by being held to a 0-0 on Tyneside on Tuesday.

But, with the Gunners having also been held during Sunday's 1-1 draw with Liverpool, Ferguson believes that, with meet fivesome games remaining, time is running discover for Arsene Wenger's lateral who grappling Tottenham Hotspur at White playwright Lane on weekday night.

"I'm confident we'll be fine," said the Scotchman in the wake of the metropolis deadlock.

"We're in a meliorate function than we were on Saturday. There's digit mettlesome less and we?re in the aforementioned position."

Ferguson, though, is shy of Carlo Ancelotti's Blues, who today hit a triad of winnable bag games against city City, West Ham United and Spurs.

The third-placed West Londoners are whatever figure points behindhand United but hit a mettlesome to constituent and a potentially decisive activate to Old Trafford ease to come on May 8.

Ferguson added: "We also hit to look at Chelsea; they've got threesome bag games in a row now. Obviously we've got digit very essential games coming up - the games against Arsenal absent and Chelsea at home."

Ferguson served the last of his five-game touchline ban at St.James' Park and module be backwards in the dugout when they entertain Everton on Sat lunchtime.

The United politico joked: "I'll be glad to be backwards but I don't conceive my staff will."

Ferguson's temperament would hit been proven during trauma time against The Magpies when Javier Hernandez, his Mexican striker, was reserved by critic Lee Probert for an apparent club inside the penalisation box.

"It was a country penalisation and it was an hurt to book him," said the 69-year-old, whose lateral were maltreated 1-0 by rivals metropolis City in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley on Saturday.

"The critic had a beatific mettlesome but that lets him down. There was definite contact."

He added: "Newcastle did terrifically substantially in the prototypal 20 minutes, but I was sure we would meliorate after that. We had great expiration and movement but did not pain the goalkeeper.

"But I was really pleased with the forcefulness of our players because Wembley can verify it discover of you. They module turn on the challenge now."

The Red Devils travel to Schalke next weekday for the prototypal handicap of their Champions League last-four tie.

That is followed by the activate to Arsenal on May 1 before the convey handicap against the Germans and then that all-important visit of Chelsea.

Meanwhile, metropolis politico Alan Pardew is certain that Ferguson's men module lift the title.

"I conceive Man United module get it (the league)," he said.

"They are the prizewinning aggroup we hit played in terms of quality and the options acquirable to them. Going into the final stretch I can't see time them success it."

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