Ex-United players Paul Scholes and Rio Ferdinand, analysing the game for BT Sport, delivered stinging criticisms of their old team s display – the former branding it “shambolic” – and Van Gaal conceded his side had struggled with the Liverpool s intensity.
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“Manchester United should be competing to win the Premier League and Champions League every season”, said Scholes.
Steve Wilson: “It wasn’t just losing, it was the manner of their defeat at Liverpool which would have stung the travelling Manchester United fans, which included Gary Pallister, Andy Cole and Denis Irwin”.
To win either the FA Cup or Europa League, United will need to overcome West Ham and Liverpool respectively in their next two games. “He’s a good player and had a good month, but captain of Manchester United?”.
Louis van Gaal says that the style of play he has implemented at Manchester United is working, only that results are missing.
The paper claims that ‘United have managed one or zero shots on target in no fewer than eight of their past 30 Barclays Premier League matches and in six of the past 21.
Well Dimitri Payet is the best player the club has had since the brilliant Italian and on his day he can be unplayable.
“The FA Cup is very special for all of us and it is against a very good team like West Ham”, Mata said.
Jurgen Klopp, however, made a point of saying afterwards that his side have not achieved anything yet and those were sentiments with which Sturridge agreed, particularly as Liverpool have only won twice at Old Trafford in the last 12 years.
– Man United have netted 12 goals in their last four home games in all competitions – the same amount they’d scored at Old Trafford in their previous 13 matches.
“This (defeat to Liverpool) of course gives us much more pressure”.
“As a human being I could really celebrate and say it is the best and greatest ever but I don’t want to set a limit for them, I don’t know how strong they can be”.
Their dip in form then took a new low against Liverpool, in a match where they failed to find motivation for such a huge game. “But still we have the chance to win something and you have to believe in that”.
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While United can still overcome the deficit in the second leg, the Red Devils most certainly will have their work cut out and Smalling has been ruing the fact that his side were unable to grab an away goal at Anfield.
