And even though Rooney has not been in sparkling form this season, his experience and presence will be missed in Germany next week.
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Van Gaal has been criticized by several former Manchester United players for the way the Red Devils have been playing this season, with club icon Paul Scholes calling out the veteran coach recently.
He said: “I generally watch what I think will be entertaining games with two attack-minded passing teams”.
“His ankle is not good enough and we have to recover that ankle with a lot of strength”. Though still raw and a little inconsistent, the 22-year-old has offered a more direct and obvious threat than Rooney in recent weeks and getting energy into the front-line is what United desperately need.
“It’s his shoulder, the same as previous year, in a training session”.
United have been out-scored by all of their top-five rivals and Van Gaal’s style of play has drawn criticism, with some claiming it to be tiresome.
“The question shall he be operated on?” he said.
“In terms of the quantity of injuries we are not bad, but unfortunately those three injuries have happened to our key players, especially on the offensive side of our game. We have to see later and wait for the scan and make the scan at the proper time”.
“We have a lot of contact injuries and also long-lasting injuries so that’s our problem”. Jesse Lingard is coming back which is good news.
Now manager Bilic hopes to add United to that list and become the first manager to achieve the feat since former Leeds boss Howard Wilkinson in 1995.
Louis van Gaal has continued his streak of offering substitute places to unheralded youngsters with the inclusion of Guillermo Varela to Saturday’s matchday squad. We have to understand that nowadays it is not so easy any more to disorganise opponents who are defending the way they have been at Old Trafford.
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“But narrow victories are victories, they are not conceding goals”. Some people say they are boring, I heard it many times.
