The confidence levels of this side will be sky-high and the Dean Court faithful will wait with bated breath to see whether their side can conjure up another eye-opening performance, if not a similar result against Louis van Gaal’s injury-hit side.
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In desperate need of a lift following their Champions League elimination in mid-week, Manchester United visit Bournemouth in the Premier League on Saturday in the grip of a selection crisis.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic denied having seen the incident at the time, but having seen the TV replay agreed after the game that the United midfielder should have been dismissed.
Schweinsteiger caught Reid in the throat as the players battled for position from a first-half free-kick during the 0-0 draw. We are doing that, but in the outside world I think it’s more of a problem than in our inside world. But I have done everything I could, as have my players and my board.
And speaking after that famous win Howe told the BBC: “The club has never been in the Premier League, so winning at the champions is a huge result for the club”.
United officials will not accept a repeat of last season’s fourth-placed finish in the top flight and are demanding a return on their investment in Van Gaal’s services, say the Star. However Die Nationalmannschaft head coach Joachim Löw assured the media that the Manchester United midfielder would still retain the captain’s armband of the national side.
“I watched their Champions League game [a 3-2 loss at Wolfsburg], it was a good game, it could have gone either way”.
“For me, the Euro (Europa) League is a big competition”.
“The difference is the structure of the club, the players and the culture of the club”.
“I read the same things 20 years ago”.
“The world has changed”, Van Gaal said. But further reckless spending in the name of presenting a unified front could well come at a serious cost, especially if they keep missing out on the monetary bonuses involved with progressing to the latter stages of the Champions League.
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They actually started the season well; they won at Upton Park, they picked up some credible points against Leicester, Watford and Everton – but the concern is they are still languishing dangerously above the bottom three.
