Quotes from Nemanja Matic

In the Champions League, everything is possible.

I have enjoyed my time at Chelsea and would like to thank the club and the fans for their support.

I played for Chelsea for three-and-a-half years and I gave them my best to win against them and show my quality again. I didn't have anything to prove to them. I wanted to show my new club that I deserve to wear this Manchester United shirt.

As I said, when I played at Chelsea I give always my best to help the team but now Manchester United is my club and I will try to win there.

I don't want to speak about why I left Chelsea. I will keep that to myself.

The Manchester derby, for our supporters, is the most important game in the season. Always, a few days before the game, the people create that atmosphere that is special to them.

My son is now a big Man United supporter. Of course, he supports me always.

Manchester is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I'm very happy because I am part of this great club, this great group.

I recognise fully why people wear poppies, I totally respect everyone's right to do so and I have total sympathy for anyone who has lost loved ones due to conflict.

I just have to improve here at Chelsea. I played in Portugal but here it is a higher level so I'm sure I can improve a lot and I will work hard every day.

My wife and son cried when we left Portugal, but I had to move.

In the defensive midfield position, the player needs to give balance to the team and try to control the game. That's exactly what I try to do.

Defensive midfielder is my position and I have to be focused on that role.

I've played regularly in a big club at Benfica, where it is not easy and there is a lot of pressure. In those years I learned to be a winner and play under that pressure.

When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'

Of course, I know that I have some qualities. I think I can run a lot, that I'm physically well but if I have other qualities I will leave other people to speak about me.

Vidic was a great player and one of the players where I look to be similar because he had a great career.

I have good friends at Chelsea. I talk sometimes with Eden Hazard, Gary Cahill, Cesc Fabregas but with all of them they are my good friends and they are good guys.

When you leave a big club and go on loan to a small club in Holland it is not easy. But I am a footballer and I have to be professional about my job.

I am delighted to have joined Manchester United. To work with Jose Mourinho once again was an opportunity I couldn't turn down.

The Premier League is not easy for young players because it is very hard, very tough. Most of the players are very tall.

When you finish the season with a trophy it's different.

To play at Old Trafford in a Manchester shirt I think is something special.

I'd first come to Chelsea from Kosice and, for me, that was a dream. It's not easy making that move. I was maybe the first player to come from Slovakia to a club like Chelsea, who normally buy players from Holland, Spain, Italy, Portugal.