The 25-year-old came off towards the end of the game and was shown in an emotional embrace with Howe as the full-time whistle blew.
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Injuries are a problem, but at this stage of the season most clubs have injuries and few have United’s financial resources.
“When I see that my players want to do everything that we ask then I think that’s the most important thing”, said Van Gaal.
“And I have seen also how the bench was participating in the match, so we all wanted to win. We have got to get back to doing that as quickly as possible”.
Manchester United finally got found out on Saturday, if you’re of the mind that they’re not almost as good as their point total.
Injuries were an issue defensively with three rookies playing and Daley Blind out of position.
Eddie Howe believes he achieved the impossible by leading Bournemouth to victory over Manchester United on Saturday night – six years to the day after they had been hammered by Morecambe.
“And I think that’s the most important thing”. “We looked at their team, especially their back four, and knew we could exploit that”.
A defiant Van Gaal also claimed he would not need to alter his long-term managerial strategies to guide United back to former glories.
Manchester United manager said that the ongoing period is “very tough” and he hasn’t lost games in a row so often.
Meanwhile, in Germany, Javier Hernandez plundered another hat-trick for Bayer Leverkusen.
United are in the fourth place with 29 points from 16 matches.
“I have already won the Europa League with Ajax in my first season, and I was very proud of that”.
“We wanted to bounce back today”. We have to train, we have to prepare for Norwich City and we have to beat them.
Manchester United headed in at half time level thanks to a 23rd minute Marouane Fellaini leveller, but they then conceded again from a corner in the 54th minute as Josh King lost his marker and fired a shot past De Gea.
Elsewhere Romelu Lukaku scored in his sixth consecutive match but was not able to earn Everton a win as they drew 1-1 with Norwich at Carrow Road. I thought the young lads did well, to be honest. 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.
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It sparked something though, with his fired up players earning a victory that will always be remembered by the 11,334 fans packed inside Vitality Stadium.
