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West Ham taking confidence from Man Utd draw - Cresswell

Aaron Cresswell believes West Ham United are feeling confident despite conceding a late goal to Manchester United in their 1-1 draw on Sunday.

The Hammers took a 49th-minute lead through Cheikhou Kouyate at Upton Park before Daley Blind scored in injury-time to deny the east Londoners victory.

In the wake of the missed opportunity, Cresswell explained that it was in the end a decent result for the Hammers ahead of Wednesday night's trip to third-placed Southampton.

"It feels like we've lost the game when, in reality, we've got the draw," left-back Cresswell told the club's official website.

"We got one point instead of three, but we're still full of confidence because we deserved the three points over the 90 minutes, but it wasn't to be.

"We've been there before over the Christmas period when you play Saturday/Tuesday or Saturday/Wednesday. We'll be full of confidence going to Southampton on Wednesday and we're all looking forward to it.

"Obviously we've had a good first half to the season, you could say. We're well into the second half to the season now and we're eighth in the league.

"Coming up against Manchester United we always knew it would be a tough game, but when we're at home we fancy ourselves against anyone."

Eighth-placed West Ham, who have seven wins and three draws from 13 home fixtures this term, head to St Mary's Stadium having saluted just once in their past seven away fixtures.

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