Henrik Larsson bid farewell to United after the 2-2 FA Cup quarter final draw with Middlesbrough, but urged his team-mates to go on and win as many trophies as possible this season.

Sir Alex Ferguson said the 35-year-old was given an emotional send-off from the players in the dressing room after the game, with the Swedish forward giving some positive words of advice to his now former colleagues.

“I said bye to most of the lads, but I’m going to see them all on Tuesday [for the charity match] so I didn’t want to make too much out of it,” he said.

“I wished the players all the best for the rest of the season. Hopefully they are going to win something and I will be watching every game from Sweden, so that’s going to be great.

“All they can do is stay in all the competitions. As long as United are still in the cup there is a chance of winning it.

“Everything is possible, but it’s important that the lads focus on one competition at a time, and not think too much about what the other teams are doing.”

The Swede said that although the draw against Boro means one more fixture, the performance showed resilience as well as quality.

“It was an entertaining game, a typical cup tie,” he told MUTV. “We started out very well today and scored inside half an hour.

“Unfortunately they came back at us at half time. But you can’t expect anything else when you’re playing a cup match. The other