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Rooney urges Man Utd to stay grounded after surprise Arsenal win

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney refuses to get carried away after victory at Arsenal.

United have moved up to fourth in the Barclays Premier League table and are 13 points off leaders Chelsea ahead of the important winter schedule. Rather than getting carried away, Rooney is focused on gleaning six points from the next two home matches against Hull City and Stoke City.

"We are taking each game as it comes," the United captain insisted. "It has been a bit of an indifferent start for us this season and we hope now to go on a good run of games and judge the position we are in after Christmas.

"We have got two home games coming up [Hull and Stoke at Old Trafford] and we feel like we should be taking six points out of them. We want to try to build a bit of momentum going into the New Year so today was a massive result in terms of starting that."

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