"United have a fantastic team and you look at their run-in, look to see where they are going to drop points - it would have been very difficult if we'd lost the game. I think that point could be big. We'll have to wait and see how big it could be for us," the skipper told Sky Sports.
"Performance-wise, at times we were very good. Torres and Benayoun were frightening going forward. Yossi was my man of the match.
"It's not like us to concede that many goals. We're normally sound defensively, especially at home.
"Now we need United to get beaten which is difficult to do because they're a good team. Hopefully others can look at what we did to them and what Fulham did to them. I still believe there will be twists and turns in this title race and we'll keep on fighting."