Stoke City manager Mark Hughes believes Manchester United were weaker for dropping captain Wayne Rooney after masterminding Saturday’s 2-0 win at the Britannia Stadium.
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UK’s first six points came off second-chance opportunities, this against a U of L team ranked No. 2 nationally in rebound margin. Kentucky’s second-leading scorer, Isaiah Briscoe , sat out after hurting his ankle during pregame warmups.
The Red Devils will host Chelsea at Old Trafford on Monday, and it remains to be seen whether Van Gaal manages to cling on to his job until the Premier League champions arrive in Manchester.
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According to him, “the media are saying and writing things that are not happening inside Manchester United”.
“It was a bad goal to give away”, Van Gaal said.
“It was another tremendous performance from us, and at key times a very professional one I would suggest”, manager Hughes said.
The biggest indictment of the malaise afflicting England’s biggest club was Van Gaal’s belief that his expensively-assembled team “did not dare to play football in the first half”.
“It is very hard as I’m also part of four losses and I have to cope with that”.
“But much more important is that the players have to deal with it because they have to perform”.
Van Gaal said: “I thought it was the right decision, otherwise I would not have done it”.
There have already been calls for Van Gaal’s sacking, but on Saturday, he threatened to head them off by choosing to essentially fire himself.
“Yeah. They play the ball, control the ball, keep the ball when they want and they lost the ball also but that is also when you dare to play football but yeah in the first half they could keep the ball, in the second half they couldn’t keep the ball anymore”.
“So people are looking at me”.
Stoke City prolonged Manchester United’s suffering with a 2-0 win, which left them without a win for seven games.
“It’s a tough period over Christmas, we’ve got a tough fixture against Everton, United have got Chelsea so you’ve got to work with your resources”. But they will act if they feel he has lost the faith of the players and that the side are in freefall.
“But in the end my players have to do that by themselves”.
Rooney, who has scored only two league goals this season, was the only change Van Gaal made to the team beaten 2-1 at home by Norwich City last weekend.
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“In the second half we played better than the first half but the problem is we didn’t dare to play, and that’s my analysis”.
