Manchester United goalkeeper coach Eric Steele admits the club's reserve-team keepers face a tough task.

He told manutd.com: "The hardest job for a goalkeeper at United is understudying the number 1. At the present time, Edwin van der Sar is in the top spot, he's got the shirt, and it's up to Tomasz Kuszczak and Ben Foster to become Edwin's senior challenger.

"Whenever Tomasz comes into the team and plays one game, some people might say he could have done this or that better. They never seem to talk about what he did well in the game, which is something I always look at. People need to take into account it might be Tomasz's first game for six weeks. The same goes for Ben."