“We didn’t play with real swagger today but we showed character and fought until the final seconds”. Gaal’s trust in young players have given the side more confidence. I like to score goals.
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Ronaldo cost Real Madrid a then world record fee of o80 million when he left England in 2009 but he turns 31 in February and was off the boil in Saturday’s 4-0 defeat to Barcelona where he cut a frustrated figure.
The Red Devils have lost just one of their last nine Premier League matches (W6 D2 L1). The win puts United top of the Premier League.
Louis van Gaal’s side have proved their mettle already this season and will need to exhume every ounce of resilience to come out of this spell unscathed.
United secured a dramatic victory in stoppage time, though, as Deeney scored an own goal as he attempted to keep out Bastian Schweinsteiger’s cross-shot.
On his role at Watford, Memphis added: “The system was different, but we have a little bit more freedom and there was space in behind also which we took advantage of”.
Jones was having a good game alongside him, though his involvement was cut short by injurry when he was forced off in the second half and replaced by Paddy McNair.
I was very satisfied with our defensive organisation.
“Of course we are fighting for the first position in the Premier League”.
“In the first half, Memphis was superb, like Jesse Lingard”. We could have finished the game much earlier.
“So you cannot say that we gave a lot away, but I can expect we do better with our possession game than we did”. But to get three points out of it was good. It was an injection, the equaliser.
The Dutch manager was delighted with his forward players and praised the duo for being regularly involved in creating scoring chances for the team. Van Gaal also said striker James Wilson has a swollen knee.
He said: “We are still fighting”. Antonio Valencia has been operated on.
Luke Shaw is stretchered off against PSV Eindhoven. I think it’s a compliment for those two that they have played.
But while Smalling is finally fulfilling his potential injuries continue to be a concern for Jones.
United manager van Gaal did not include any out and out forwards in his line-up, with Wayne Rooney absent through illness. He is at home. “I’m not 100 per cent convinced I think City and Arsenal will have to struggle with injuries or struggle with form if United are going to go on to win the league”.
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“Martial is another problem, his foot, it is not as heavy as the media have written but we have to wait and see if he can play Wednesday”.
