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Van Gaal reflects on toughest week but backs United players

“Within two days we have to beat Bournemouth”.

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“Only one club can win the Champions League each season”. The Old Trafford outfit’s response – losing 2-1 at Bournemouth – was not exactly what their fans would have had in mind. Some have lambasted United’s unimaginative approach under Van Gaal, and he argued that “of course you will criticise”, per Winterburn.

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“The players did everything, but I have to also say Bournemouth are pressing on the ball in a fantastic way and that’s why it makes it more hard to get the equaliser or to create chances”. You can not compare it with five or 10 years ago, because there is an evolution in European football.

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But even though Van Gaal’s injury-ravaged United remain only three points off the top in the Premier League ahead of Saturday’s tricky-looking trip to Bournemouth, there are now profound questions over the quality of their team and Van Gaal’s methods.

Pressure on United’s manager will intensify this weekend if they fail to win now 17th placed team from Premier League – Bournemouth. “And then again a set play and then you are behind in the score and it is very hard to have a revival, I think”.

“It’s a matter of belief, if you believe in the manager or not”, said the Dutchman, who said Friday that United had to get used to no longer being one of Europe’s superpowers after its elimination from the Champions League this week. “You can lose and you can win in sport, and you have to accept that, as a player and as a manager”, he added. “I’m not thinking like that”, Van Gaal snapped. You think Manchester United has a lot of money ” that is true, but other clubs are asking for much more from us than from Bournemouth.

Form – Bournemouth are unbeaten in three Premier League games and they won away at Chelsea last time out.

Yaya Toure’s shot in the second minute of injury time struck young substitute Kelechi Iheanacho and looped into the net as City escaped with a win from an unconvincing display against Swansea at Etihad Stadium.

Van Gaal, who has been criticized for failing to do better after spending $375 million in his 18 months, says “the problem is that we have to meet with the expectations and the expectations at a club like Manchester United are very high”.

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These defensive injuries mean that United are really struggling to field a back four for this weekend’s game with Smalling and Darmian joining Phil Jones, Luke Shaw, Marcos Rojo and Antonio Valencia on the sidelines who are all missing from the defence.

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