The Argentina defender played 69 minutes at St Mary’s as goals from Anthony Martial and Juan Mata moved United up to second place in the Premier League table and just two points behind leaders Manchester City after six games.
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Jones has been missing from the first team since pre-season after suffering from mild thrombosis and while he isn’t yet fit enough to play, van Gaal decision not to sign a central defender in the transfer window this summer is proving to be a bad choice as it stands.
Van Gaal suffered at the hands of a giant killing during his first season at United when the Red Devils were knocked out early on by the MK Dons.
Mick McCarthy has already registered one upset against Louis Van Gaal, although it did come 14 years ago and the pair were in charge of very different teams.
“He answers a question honestly and I get the hump about it!”
Too good for the reserves but not good enough for the first team? With United entering the cup in the Third Round, with a tie against Ipswich Town, Van Gaal is expected to ring out the changes, and offer up opportunities to some of the most hyped and popular stars that fans want to see handed a chance to show what they can do.
Louis van Gaal: “With that amount of passes you control the game but we are not playing a possession game only to control the match”.
But the England Under-21 worldwide looks set to stay at the club. “He has a hamstring injury”. In his United debut under interim manager Ryan Giggs in 2014, he scored twice against Hull City at Old Trafford.
Van Gaal will have to name Jones as a substitute against Ipswich.
“He’s got the pedigree”, the former Manchester United manager said.
“I told all my players what I was going to do and a few of them were going “oh, I want to play at Old Trafford” and I said “well f****** keep us up and play there next year because let me tell you they won’t get relegated”.
Nick Powell returned to United after just three appearances for Leicester last season.
“There is no need to talk about it. The player is happy at United and has no intention of leaving the club”.
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Manchester United defenders Marcos Rojo and Paddy McNair have been ruled out of Wednesday’s Capital One Cup clash against Ipswich through injury.
