“For us it’s been a brilliant week, but the preparation for this game was hard with the news of Harry Arter and his family”, he said.
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He says they endured a miserable journey back up to Manchester from Dorset on Saturday night to cap the worst week of Louis van Gaal’s 18-month reign. The past that he could replicate some things he did at Bayern Munich and make them play attacking entertaining football like his Netherlands side did at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
There are too many question marks hanging over too many people who are just maybe not good enough to play at a club like Manchester United in the big games.
“And I think that’s the most important thing”.
For Bournemouth, promoted from the Championship last season, this was another stunning result that came on the back of last weekend’s 1-0 win at Chelsea and moved the south-coast club up to 14th position.
Crystal Palace continued their best start to a Premier League season with Yohan Cabaye’s goal earning a 1-0 home win over Southampton and elevating them to sixth, six points off the lead.
United – depleted by a wretched run of injuries to senior players – conceded directly from a corner in the second minute on its way to a humbling 2-1 loss at Bournemouth, the latest shock result in a season of surprises in the Premier League. I said it to the players after the match.
And that they’ll take some time to recover…
The 25-year-old was close to tears after being booked in the 84th minute, and was embraced by manager Eddie Howe when given an early shower two minutes later.
Van Gaal blamed the threat of Bournemouth striker Josh King for that.
“That is how I have seen this game”.
“I’ve been thinking a lot about Saturday evening and what to tell you after such a disappointing week”, he wrote. “With Lingard, it is a second occurrence in a short space of time so we will have to see”.
“I think I probably prefer to focus on the week rather than the individual games”, said Howe. We didn’t do that in the first half but we had the feeling in the players, the management and the staff that we could win this game.
Michael Carrick captained the side and knows they now need to respond and get back in the title picture, starting with victory over Norwich on Saturday.
“Of course I’m concerned because we have lost two matches in a row, and that is not a usual thing, so we have to stick together and prepare our match against Norwich”.
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Although Carrick admits dropping out of Europe’s premier club competition is tough to take, the England midfielder says everyone at Old Trafford will now be looking to win the Europa League.
