Manchester United must cut out sloppy mistakes, warns Nemanja Vidic

Nemanja Vidic has warned his Manchester United team-mates they must learn quickly from the sloppiness that cost them victory at Fulham on Sunday if they are to keep up with Chelsea at the top of the Premier League. Sir Alex Ferguson's side dropped their first points of the season at Craven Cottage after missing a late penalty and then conceding a stoppage time equaliser to Brede Hangeland. The manager admitted in the aftermath that his side had dropped "silly points" with Vidic, one of the visiting players outjumped by the Norwegian at the home side's second, just as frustrated by the wasteful stalemate. "Everyone in the dressing-room was very disappointed," said the Serbian defender. "It was a bad result, especially as we were winning in the last minute of the game. It's hard to take the draw. We have to make sure that the goals we lost today don't happen again. All in all, it's hard to take. If it had finished 2-1 we would have been happy with the result, but not that much with the performance. But if we'd won we could have forgotten this game. Now there are definitely some lessons we must learn from this. "We need to improve at set pieces. We knew it would be hard even before: we always find it difficult against Fulham. They have many strong players like Bobby Zamora, Hangeland and Dickson Etuhu. They are good in the air and we knew what we were going to face." United's draw ensured only the defending champions, Chelsea, boast a perfect start to the new season having won both their games resoundingly. "We've slipped behind early before, it's happened in previous years," said Vidic. "We drew against Newcastle two years ago and had some other bad results at the start of the season and still gone on [to challenge]. We don't want to be too down after the Fulham result, but it's definitely hard to take because we had the result in our hands and, with the experience we have in our team, we shouldn't allow that to happen two minutes from the end."