Ancelotti, who won the Premier League title and the FA Cup with Chelsea in the 2009-10 season, also said he would like to return to the Premier League.
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“At the moment, I can not defend myself because we are out of the Champions League and every word I say is a wrong word, I think”.
“The facts say we are better than past year”.
Instead, major defensive lapses jumped on by an attack-minded Wolfsburg side led to a 3-2 win by the German club, and a one-way trip out of the UEFA Champions League for Manchester United.
PSV Eindhoven’s 2-1 win at home to CSKA Moscow allowed the Dutch to claim second place as third-placed United now drop into the Europa League.
“We scored the goals“. Marouane Fellaini went the closest, forcing Benaglio into action with a low header from a corner. Replays show that Juan Mata was in an offside position when the ball came in and was inadvertently in the goalkeeper’s eyesight, which caused the Swiss stopper to dive late.
Replays validated the decision from the officials.
Michael Owen, another member of BT Sport’s punditry team, added: I think he [Van Gaal] is under severe pressure now.
“We didn’t score many goals before and in an away match you score two goals – maybe three but one was cancelled out”.
“With an average team, you get average performances”. Schürrle was denied again moments later, this time from a de Gea leaping block in front of the net.
United did get on level terms on 82 minutes when Blind’s corner from the left was headed down by Fellaini towards goal and Guilavogui could only send a backwards header looping into his own net when trying to clear.
Van Gaal retains the support of the board but fan unrest will undoubtedly increase.
The tide of the game changed at that point as the Bundesliga side began to create more chances, while United struggled to break through a resilient defence. Wayne Rooney if he’s on form, but he hasn’t been on form for a while now.
But that problem was solved inside the opening ten minutes as the Red Devils took an early lead. Three points on the board, and United were up and running ahead of two taxing matches with CSKA Moscow.
“You know it’s a mix of everything, it’s not only the strikers who shoot on goal“.
Van Gaal however tried to see some positives from the defeat: “The last matches we played we didn’t score goals, but now we have scored goals“. “But we now have to forget this disappointment, pick ourselves up very quickly and focus on the next game”.
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With its brand badly damaged by the diesel emissions scandal, Volkswagen may be reluctant to sacrifice the valuable marketing exposure it gets from subsidizing Wolfsburg, and its other soccer partnerships (it has a stake in German league champions Bayern Munich through its subsidiary Audi). “However, Manchester United still had too many chances for my liking”.
