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Manchester United Manager, Louis Van Gaal identifies His January Transfer

Louis van Gaal claims Manchester United fans have been influenced by the media, as he hits back at Paul Scholes after the club’s latest victory. The back four too have had the confidence to rely on United’s number one goalkeeper, David de Gea as he has been faultless this season.

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United failed with bids to land Real Madrid’s Gareth Bale, Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller and Barcelona’s Neymar in the summer transfer rush, with Van Gaal keen to add to his options in wide positions in the next transfer window. It seems he [Van Gaal] doesn’t want players to beat men and score goals – it’s not a team I would have enjoyed playing in.

The Baggies finally managed to make a run down the other end shortly before the interval, with Salomon Rondon seeing Chris Smalling turn his effort behind for a corner, which was easily cleared by the hosts. We did the double.

Albion had won on their previous two visits to Old Trafford, with their 1-0 success in May the last time United had lost at home. “I was in the stands for a few games but I had to work hard in training and I got my rewards”. I’m convinced it will happen. I think we are in a good way.

“There is still room for improvement but we did improve on breaking a team down”.

“The team spirit here is great”.

Not just that, but he was also a diligent in his defensive duties and showed an awareness in his game that Louis van Gaal would later praise.

“I can have no complaints with (the penalty and sending-off) according to the letter of the law”, he said.

“It’s not exclusive to England”, said Schweinsteiger. “In Munich, in the German League or Champions League, it was exactly the same”. You have seen Bayern draw 0-0 recently against Frankfurt because Frankfurt were defending with a lot of players.

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“It is very important we win our matches at the moment because the league is very tight”. United have now gone 555 minutes without leaking a goal – over nine hours – and is their best defensive record since keeping 8 clean sheets from December 2004 – January ’05. I said at half-time that we had to continue and be patient, because the goal was coming. The game could have been very different had Saido Berahino managed to find the target with a free header from six yards out with United only ahead by the one goal at the time.

Jesse Lingard bends in his first goal for Manchester United during the 2-0 win over West Brom at Old Trafford