Given United’s injury troubles, van Gaal may struggle to ease the pressure on his shoulders by delivering a victory at Bournemouth to keep the pressure on Leicester and Manchester City on Saturday evening.
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Van Gaal had endured a barrage of abuse from unhappy fans during last Saturday s 0-0 draw against West Ham, but that was nothing compared to the insults thrown at him after United suffered an embarrassing Champions League exit on Tuesday.
The club believes they have given the Dutchman more than enough resources to will the EPL this season and will not accept just a top four spot.
The Manchester United dressing room was reportedly unhappy with manager Louis van Gaal’s decision to replace Juan Mata with Nick Powell, as the squad trailed behind Wolfsburg in their Champions League face-off.
On the right-hand side of defence, the 22-year-old Uruguayan Guillermo Varela is set to deputise for Darmian having played the full 90 minutes against Wolfsburg.
United were beaten 3-2 by Wolfsburg, conceding some sloppy goals, and Keane was scathing in his assessment of a side that spent over £100million during the summer and will now drop into the Europa League. You can win or lose in sports. We will do everything we can.
“So the problem is that we have to meet with the expectations, and the expectations at a club like United are very high”.
“Van Gaal hasn’t helped himself with his tactics, though”, he said. “But the referee was whistling and talking with the two players”.
“We are doing that, but in the outside world I think it’s more of a problem than in our inside world”.
Van Gaal has been bemoaned by a large section of the Old Trafford faithful this term after his Red Devils team have failed to entertain with attacking football. We’re in the Europa League and we have three different tournaments to fight for and that’s what we’ll do until the end of the season. I’m not thinking like that.
“We are proud to be hosting Manchester United”.
“United are just an average team and with an average team you get average performances”.
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United’s season has been inconsistent with the team posing both good and poor results in equal measure.
