Louis van Gaal hopes Manchester Uniteds midweek victory over Stoke will provide the springboard in their battle to secure a Champions League spot next season.United produced one of their better displays of the season as they brushed aside the Potters 3-0 at Old Trafford on Tuesday.It was a vast improvement on their previous home game against Southampton, who clinched a 1-0 win at the Theatre of Dreams. And now Van Gaal is hoping his side can use their new-found confidence to build some momentum ahead of Sundays trip to Chelsea, which will be shown live on Sky Sports.The Dutchman said: I think the players have that confidence with them at this moment. We have scored two times in the first half also. I hope it shall give them that boost to continue.But Chelsea are also in good shape because [Guus] Hiddink doesnt lose. Its not so easy to beat them at home but still I have the feeling that we can do that.United are currently fifth in the Premier League, five points off fourth spot and a place in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League.Van Gaal added: Now we have to win. The most important thing is to win our games because the gap is still five points. Its not too much but it is still five points.Thats our first aim, that we close the gap between us and No 4.Also See:Man Utd videoMan Utd fixturesMan Utd statsGet a £10 free bet!Mike Singletary Bears Jersey . -- Edmontons Val Sweeting is two wins away from a trip to Winnipeg to play in Canadas Road of the Rings in December. Devin Hester Youth Jersey . -- About a third of the way through the regular season, the Washington Wizards are at . https://www.bearssportsgoods.com/Womens-Riley-Ridley-Inverted-Jersey/ . 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Still, as he stands after his first game of his third World Championships, he isnt satisfied.After failing to win a fourth straight Korean championship, SK Telecom T1 was considered possibly weakened heading into the biggest tournament of the year. Faker and the rest of SKT quieted any critics with a blowout of North Americas Cloud9 in the defending world champions first game of the tournament.After summer split, SKT T1 as a team improved a lot, so in my opinion I didnt expect any struggle facing C9, Faker told ESPN after notching a vintage 5/1/4 score line on Syndra. The team lived up to the expectation of mine.The Worlds opener also marked the return of Fakers longtime jungle partner Bae Bengi Seong-woong, who was used sparingly across the year in professional matches in favor of rookie jungler Kang Blank Sun-gu. Although the Blank-infused team won the spring domestic season, IEM World Championship and Mid-Season Invitational, the youngsters inconsistency at the tail end of the summer season started to plague SKT. Bengis return to the lineup couldnt have gone smoother: The veteran ended with a 3/1/4 on Elise -- a champion for which he has a personalized SKT T1 skin (although he didnt use it in the game itself).My style is that I adapt to my jungler, Faker said. Bengi and [I] have a decent coordination and decent chemistry but its [not] like it is special. He isnt the only one [I can excel alongside].Obviously the game changes a lot, Faker said when asked if after four years of playing professionally he still loves loading up the game like he did as an amateur. But the core of the game remaiins the same, I believe, so I still enjoy playing the game, somewhat.dddddddddddd I really love playing ranked games, as well.Two players Faker is constantly compared to in the western region are his main rival from Korea for the title of best player in the world, ROX Tigers ace, Song Smeb Kyung-ho, and TSMs ace of the mid lane, S?ren Bjergsen Bjerg, who has been gifted the nickname North American Faker.[Bjergsen] deserves the title of North American Faker, said the man himself. I am not at all offended by it. Hes very much talented so itll be [extremely] entertaining to face him in the tournament.I think Smeb is a very talented player, as well. But I dont consider him an absolutely overwhelming player, yet; [however] if he performs really well in this tournament he could become [one of the best].Faker said that while both players are talented, he believes Bjergsen has a higher ceiling to become a star because of the developing North American scene and how many fans support him. In North America, Bjergsen can shine the brightest. Unfortunately for Smeb, he plays in a league with the best in the world.Bjergsen has more of a chance [with American players] to be a star, Faker said.ROX Tigers, Edward Gaming, even Team SoloMid have gotten more talk than SK Telecom T1 heading into the tournament. But Faker is still confident that if the Summoners Cup comes down to SKT T1 or ROX, he likes his chances.When we didnt make it to the Korean finals during the summer split, our condition was very bad, he said. Over the course of time weve recovered, so if we play [ROX] in the tournament, I think we have a higher chance of beating them. 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