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Rooney wins it for Man U with spectacular aim
Van Gaal hopes this win will kick-start United’s season too.
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77′ – GOAL! Manchester United 2-1 Swansea City.
Bastian Schweinsteiger hailed the character of the Manchester United squad after battling to a 2-1 victory over Swansea City on Saturday.
Just as Louis van Gaal suggested that he could seek to solve Manchester United’s goal- scoring problems by buying a new striker in the transfer window, his two front-line forwards found their groove to end the Red Devils’ eight-match winless run.
Like everyone inside Old Trafford, Van Gaal will have had his heart in his mouth when Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski, up for a corner, rose to plant a header just wide of the post with the last touch of the game.
“I think you have to give Wayne Rooney massive credit for the second goal”, said the Poland worldwide.
“The difference was we scored the goals and then everyone is saying the second half is better”. “If you watch Manchester United this season, you’ll see there’s not a lot of opportunities being created to score goals”. He’s under a lot of pressure but you can see right from the off he’s not afraid to get at players and use his pace and tricks.
And the playing staff were also angered by their own performances on the pitch, Van Gaal revealed. “They are also not used to that, I’m not used to that, losing four matches in a row”. I give trust to the players. They want to go away.
He was in danger of seeing more points dropped when Swansea, who had won their previous three games against United, equalised through a Gylfi Sigurdsson header with 20 minutes to play.
The hosts did not register a shot on target until the 33rd minute and only two more weak efforts followed before the break.
There were a few boos at half-time when United failed to score in the first half for the ninth home game in succession.
United’s under-fire manager Van Gaal, however, was more focussed on the importance of a result that lifted United to fifth in the table after a dismal run in December.
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Of course, Rooney burst onto the scene in 2002 for Everton with that all-time greatest debut goal. But van Gaal’s men managed to find the route to goal once more thanks to Rooney’s third league goal of the season as relief flooded around Old Trafford.