“We have showed the images to the players like we do usually so the players know everything about Midtjylland”.
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United went in front in the 37th minute through Memphis Depay’s close-range finish.
With Twitter in an uproar over United’s loss, the social network was filled with calls for Louis van Gaal to be sacked.
“The fans can criticise”.
“I think in these games when you play teams that are lesser than Manchester United, you need to win your tackles and second balls”. “We need to start rewarding these fans who travel this far and give us great support throughout the whole game”.
Next up for Van Gaal’s sorry bunch is a trip to central English market town Shrewsbury where the third-tier team looks to pile on the misery for United in the FA Cup fifth round on Monday. “It’s not acceptable. We’ve got to be a lot better”, Carrick said.
Meanwhile, Midtjylland match victor Paul Onuachu has admitted that his club expected to face a much stronger Manchester United side.
Van Gaal pointed to the catalogue of injuries as a mitigating factor for the performance and defeat. But we could have scored also, Jesse Lingard could have scored two times I think.
Goalkeeper Sergio Romero scored a 10 after a busy evening while United duo Michael Carrick and Anthony Martial came out of the game with respectable ratings of seven.
Accepting that their second half performance was poor, Van Gaal still defended the attitude of his players.
The impressive performances of De Gea this season have largely been in vain for a United team destined to miss out on qualification for the Champions League, having kept nine clean sheets for a side six points adrift of the top four.
The pressure on Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal continues to grow, with their Europa League defeat on Thursday prompting bookmakers to make the Dutchman odds-on to be the next Premier League manager to lose his job. “I have to say that in the second half Midtjylland were winning every second ball”, he said. With all respect to the Danish club (sorry we just can not pronounce it), this is unacceptable and the question is: What do management keep Van Gaal? “In certain phases we were not very well organised”.
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“We caused a lot of our own problems. In spite of that we could have also finished the game”.
