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Van Gaal unsure about Man United support
“I can also quit by myself but that is something I speak about with [Manchester United chairman] Ed Woodward and not with you”.
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Spain striker Diego Costa scored twice but Watford had led 2-1 through Troy Deeney’s first-half penalty and Odion Ighalo’s deflected shot in the 56th minute. But they will act if they feel he has lost the faith of the players and that the side are in freefall.
But the 64-year-old Dutchman refused to take all the blame himself last night: “My thoughts are that we didn’t dare to play our football in the first half and then we gave a really bad goal away”.
“We need a win, we need to be winning football matches and we haven’t been doing that”.
“We can turn this situation around”. Near the end of the first half, there was a sense panic from Stoke’s goalkeeper Jack Butland when he failed to control Arnautovic’s back-pass while United’s Anthony Martial was sprinting towards the keeper.
Rooney was brought on at half-time and asked about the move to drop his captain, Van Gaal added: “It is always a hard decision to put your captain out of the team”. We have to cope with that and look for the solution.
“We understand his attachment to his former club and his desire to help them”.
“I won’t tell you what they say to me because it isn’t any of your business”. But he reacted like a very good professional. It is not only the circumstances with the wind but also with the pressure [on the players].
Hiddink was popular with the players when he performed a similar role in 2009 following the sacking of Luiz Felipe Scolari, but amenable as he is, he has made it clear he expects the club’s under-performing players to improve. “I’m not so interested in public sayings because of the saying [Do not say it for the sake of saying it]”.
“Of course”, Carrick said.
“That’s the big issue”.
It also marks a seventh game without victory and the Red Devils have won just three times in 14 fixtures since mid-October. “We will all go home in very good spirits tonight and looking forward to the game against Everton on Monday”.
Hiddink’s first match in charge ended in a 2-2 draw at home to high-flying Watford after Oscar missed a second-half penalty that could have secured back-to-back wins.
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A win may have seemed unlikely a matter of weeks ago but now it is something Hiddink can inspire from the troubled club, with their only other notable win in the current season to date being a 2-0 win over Arsenal at Stamford Bridge in September.