Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has admitted that he is considering bringing in new strikers in the upcoming transfer window in order to strengthen their goal-shy attack.
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Anthony Martial scored his eighth goal of the season when he converted Ashley Young’s cross, but Swansea looked to have stolen a point after Gylfi Sigurdsson looped a header over David de Gea.
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Swansea’s raids forward were rare, but they twice came close to a second equaliser in injury time.
United have slipped to sixth in the Premier League, nine points behind joint leaders Arsenal and Leicester City, and Van Gaal is aware his team have an urgent need to arrest their slide.
Rooney’s afternoon up to that point had been full of industry but short on inspiration.
A large portion of United fans hold precisely the opposite view, with many eyeing newly-available Jose Mourinho and still more demanding the club pursue Pep Guardiola when the Bayern Munich boss hits the market this summer.
Ashley Young’s more advanced role meant he was able to make more telling deliveries into the box than against Stoke on Boxing Day (shown right).
The goal sparked United into life, with the team’s passing becoming sharper and Ander Herrera shooting over, but Swansea nearly equalized when Andre Ayew headed Sigurdsson’s cross against the post.
Juan Mata had two shots saved by Fabianski, who also clutched a header from Rooney.
Keeping them at bay will be a start and the back four that started against Chelsea should remain in tact.
“Inside of the club, the players are willing to fight for every meter, the manager is willing to fight, the members of staff are willing to fight and the board is very confident in the staff and the manager”, Van Gaal said.
Smalling admits the haphazard nature of the Premier League is the only reason United are still in with a shout of the title, and he believes the Red Devils must now go on a prolonged run to ensure themselves a place in the top four at the very least.
“That’s a season. A season takes eight months or something like that and not one month”. Never, and I have been in this profession for 25 years. I wish I’d asked him to go up. “We need to win because we want to be at the top of the league, not the middle”.
“We grew into the game after that, and we were unlucky not to get something”.
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Wayne Rooney was the hero at Old Trafford as he scored a lovely goal to secure a 2-1 win over Swansea. “Also, for this moment, but we still have a good team and we can still score goals”.
