“The manager made a list of penalty takers and I am the first right now, so I have confidence”, Mata said. He has not played so much there but the second goal started with him.
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“The solution is recovery”, Van Gaal said.
“Of course, he did it already against PSV Eindhoven when he could have scored also and now he scored”.
Despite a few poor defending by United’s back line, the home side recovered and, after Juan Mata was awarded a penalty for his shot that hit Caligiuri’s arm in the area, the Spaniard stepped up to the spot to equalise in fine fashion.
Aguero’s penalty in the 90 minute helped Manchester City to secure a 2-1 win over Borussia Monchengladbach, their first in the 2015 campaign. “I will have to do it then”.
“I can not tell (now) because the press conference is one day after the match”.
“We didn’t play well. When you miss you are last then the other player has the chance to take the penalty”.
Realistically, United have only two specialist strikers in Wayne Rooney and Anthony Martial.
Schneiderlin will be hoping to continue in the starting line-up when Manchester United travel to London to take on Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The Premier League leaders, who visit Arsenal on Sunday, had to hold on as Wolfsburg pressed for an equaliser. Then it is very hard to beat a German team; they were very organised and structured but in spite of that we came back in the match and we created a lot of chances. How many chances have we given away?
It was no coincidence that without the calming influence of Schweinsteiger in the middle, Wolfsburg grew into the game in the last 20 minutes as United struggled to keep the ball.
He added: “We have to improve a lot for Manchester United to be at the top of Europe”.
Van Gaal said he was still planning to leave after his contract expires in 2017, reluctant to break a promise to his wife that he would retire as planned.
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So far the season is going well domestically with them leading the Premier League and things are looking more comfortable in the Champions League group.
