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Ferry knows Utd must 'get better quickly' before 'massive' Rapid tie

Ferry knows Utd must 'get better quickly' before 'massive' Rapid tie

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"We made it a lot harder than we wanted", said full-back Will Ferry after Dundee United squeezed past UNA Strassen.Defender Iurie Iovu's header gave United victory in Luxembourg as they advanced 2-0 on aggregate to a Conference League third-round qualifier against Rapid Vienna."We're not happy necessarily in our performance and we probably should have managed the game a little bit better, but we know what we need to improve on," Ferry told BBC Scotland."A win's a win so we're happy. We're obviously a new group, we know we need to get better quickly and we're going to work hard to do that."You can see little improvements. We know we're not there yet, but we're starting to gel."Ferry is relishing the "massive" meeting with Rapid Vienna, with United travelling to Austria for next Thursday's first leg after opening their Scottish Premiership campaign on Sunday at newly-promoted Falkirk."Rapid are obviously a big club, but we're going to go there and treat it like any other game," said the 24-year-old."We'll always back ourselves and we know that if we put up our performance we've always got a chance."
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