Wayne Rooney scored a superb backheel to ease the pressure on Louis van Gaal and end Manchester United’s eight-match winless run with a win against Swansea today.
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But despite second-half goals from Anthony Martial and Wayne Rooney either side of Gylfi Sigurdsson’s header giving the Dutchman his debut win over Swansea, it didn’t stop him hitting out at their negative tactics.
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United’s last two Premier League defeats from leading positions have come against Swansea and they will have been fearing the worst when Ayew headed against the post shortly after the hour mark.
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Rooney, United’s captain, now needs 12 goals to surpass club legend Bobby Charlton’s record goal tally of 249, set between 1956 and 1973. The improving Ashley Young was also good for the side with players now beginning to return from injury.
A win at last for the United manager, the first in nine games and the first in the Premier League at Old Trafford since they dispatched West Bromwich Albion on Nov 7 although it was very almost denied them with the last improbable action of the game. “That is positive, I think”, Van Gaal said. Rooney’s goal buys him more time to turn things around at Old Trafford and his team are now fifth in the league – just two points behind Tottenham.
Louis van Gaal appears to have survived a festive period of discontent and has his United side back in sight of the top four. Again Young was involved in a telling capacity as his cross was perfectly delivered for Martial, who had drifted into a more central position, to score with a powerful downward header from eight yards which bounced up and past Lukasz Fabianski to give the young Frenchman his eighth goal of the season.
He said: “In the first half we played with three defenders, a risky shape, a risky system”.
John Stones was linked with a move to a number of top Premier League clubs over the course of the summer and many felt that a transfer to Chelsea was close to a certainty. “That is what I want as a manager and also for the fans”.
Anthony Martial, who put United ahead just after halftime, drifted past his marker on the left wing and crossed low for Rooney to produce a deft finish with his left heel from the edge of the six-yard box.
Michail Antonio and Andy Carroll scored to take their tally to two goals in as many games as West Ham achieved a first league double over Liverpool in 52 years.
Here, he went off at half-time, after suffering a knock in a first-half in which he looked more of a liability than an asset to his team.
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“The difference was we scored the goals and then everyone is saying the second half is better”.
