Van Gaal looked like a manager who suspected his time was up after the 2-0 defeat at the Britannia Stadium, but he has checked into the United team hotel as scheduled for the vital game on Monday evening.
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The latest to do just that is Michael Carrick, with the Manchester United veteran and vice-captain coming out on Sunday to insist that the team is still playing and trying their best for Van Gaal. “That hurts us – it’s not the type of people we are”. “Again we had many chances like in the last games and this time we scored two and didn’t concede one so we won and we’re very happy about that”.
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Meanwhile, Chelsea’s interim manager Guus Hiddink, a compatriot of Van Gaal’s, leapt to the defence of another Dutchman in the firing line – United midfielder Memphis Depay.
“Last week against Norwich [a 2-1 defeat] was a disaster, it was a little bit better on Saturday, but they’re just not good enough”.
But the 64-year-old Dutchman refused to take all the blame himself last night: “My thoughts are that we didn’t dare to play our football in the first half and then we gave a really bad goal away”. “We have got another game quickly to get ourselves ready for and we have got to stand up and be ready for that”.
With Manchester United falling out of the top 4 in the Premier League and following their exit from the Champions League earlier this month, Van Gaal does not have the results backing him up like he did when he was being criticised earlier for being boring and too strict.
“It is not always the club that has to sack me”, said Van Gaal.
After the Stoke game, Van Gaal appeared to accuse his players of bowing to the pressure surrounding the club.
The England striker has endured a frustrating season in a team that has failed to play with any of the attacking brio that brought United 13 Premier League titles under manager Alex Ferguson.
The former Holland manager who have lots of experience working with several big clubs, takes most of the blame for the poor run of the Red Devils because he’s the manager, but he also said his players have not been under-performing.
“It is more hard because I am also part of the four matches that we have lost so people are looking at me”.
“These players have fantastic spirit and they will show that in 48 hours”.
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“You’ll have to wait and see but I think so”, he said.
