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Football world will be against Man Utd in Preston contest - van Gaal

Manchester United will be up against everybody when they take on Preston North End on Monday night.

The Red Devils take on the League One Lilywhites at Deepdale in the fifth round of the FA Cup and manager Louis van Gaal is expecting most people in the football community to get right behind the underdogs.

United have beaten lower league clubs Yeovil Town and Camrbrdge United (in a replay) to get to this stage of the famous cup which van Gaal should have them prepared to face another team from an inferior division.

"We are now playing for the third time a lower team," he said. "You know the world is against you.

"Everything - the environment is against you because everybody is for the underdog. It is difficult to accept, but like that.

"The chance to survive is higher because you are playing against lower qualities. But you have to play the team and the atmosphere and everyone against you."

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