A disappointed Ryan Giggs gave his thoughts on Manchester United's second consecutive league loss after Fulham beat them 2-0 at Craven Cottage...

Ryan Giggs spoke to MUTV tonight after his Mancheter United team's defeat at Fulham, giving his own spin on what today's results - including Chelsea's shock result against Spurs - mean in terms of the battle for the title.

"We didn’t expect that [Spurs] result... it’s better than [Chelsea] winning," said the Welshman.

"We’ve got to do our own job, not worry about the teams around us. It’s still in our hands."

Despite feeling that the title race is still being very much dominated by the Red Devils, Giggs is well aware of the severity of the back-to-back losses his team have suffered, an occurrence so rare that one must delve back four years and 148 matches into the past to find the last time United suffered consecutive losses in the league.

"We’re obviously disappointed with the result. After losing last weekend, we wanted to come here and put on a good performance," Giggs continued.

"We didn’t do that in the first half - our passing was sloppy and our movement wasn’t good enough. We just couldn’t get it going, the tempo wasn’t good."

The veteran midfielder cited the sending off of Paul Scholes as a possible excuse for the sub-par performance by the champions.

"Scholesy’s sending off dealt us a double blow because we were down to ten men and Fulham were awarded a penalty. It was just instinct really – if you’re on the goal line, you’ll try and save it. He was unlucky to be the last man but it was a sending off."

Fully admitting that ex-Fulham keeper Edwin van der Sar kept his side in the game for a long time, Giggs credited his side with an improved second half performance, even if they couldn't salvage a result.

"Going a goal behind and down to ten men, we had to arrange our shape a little bit differently. We came out and played a lot better in the second half. We were on top, we created some good chances and their keeper made a couple of good saves. Had one of those efforts gone in then we could have gone on to win it but it wasn’t to be.

"Some of our lads now go away for the international break. Hopefully we won’t have any injuries and we can get back on track against [Aston] Villa."

- Goal.com