The assistant coach says it is an unfamiliar feeling to be relieved at securing Champions League qualification but notes the progress made after last season's struggles.Ryan Giggs has admitted that it feels strange for Manchester United to consider the prospect of finishing fourth in the Premier League as a successful season.The Red Devils made a habit of featuring in the Champions League throughout Giggs' long Old Trafford career, which saw him make 151 appearances in the game's premier club cup competition, scoring 30 goals in the process.They failed to qualify last season - for the first time since the 1995-96 season - but, with one round of the domestic season remaining, are now guaranteed to finish at least fourth in England's top flight, thus securing a swift return to the top table of European football.
I've enjoyed it on a personal level but it feels a bit strange when you've been at this club for such a long time during such a successful period to be celebrating a Champions League spot, Giggs told MUTV.If we're honest, that's what we set out to achieve at the beginning of the season and going from seventh to getting in a Champions League place is great. But next year we want to be competing for trophies.Speaking at United's end-of-season awards dinners, Giggs said that United had the quality to match Premier League champions Chelsea but were lacking consistency.Chelsea are the best team this year without a shadow of a doubt, he said. The pleasing thing for us has been that in the big games we've proved that we've got the quality.We just perhaps not had the consistency, that's been the difference. We've dropped silly points and to win the Premier League you can't afford to do that. Every game is a battle whether it be home or away.We've proved that we've got the quality, but next season we need to get that consistency and be there or thereabouts at the turn of the year.This club is a juggernaut once you get that momentum and are winning games and when we do that we're very hard to stop. So that's what we want to achieve starting from the first game next season.
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