Louis van Gaal and his assistant Ryan Giggs during the afternoon home game against Swansea. ANP EPA / Peter Powell
The first game of Louis van Gaal as coach of Manchester United ended in disappointment. On our own Old Trafford sharp counterattack Swansea was more effective than the team’s former coach.
Today, exactly five weeks ago that Orange in third place the World Cup safely put a nice victory over Brazil. Today Van Gaal did not see what he wanted, he said in front of the cameras of the British broadcaster BT Sport and Reuters:
“We did not play as a team. And that’s our own fault. But we should not let the little head hanging down and take the next step in our growth process. Today we did not reach our level as we did in our pre-season in the past four weeks. We must learn from it. “
” Of course, this result is very disappointing. If you’re in preparing each match win and you lose your first league game – it could not be worse, I guess. We had a lot of confidence tanked and now runs a big dent. “
Manchester had much more possession, but to really have much chances. Led to The defense of Van Gaals men appeared, as previously predicted by analysts, the Achilles heel. With two good counterattacks goalkeeper David De Gea in the first and in the second half was easily outwitted.
In contrast, United did not long after half an equalizer that name came from Wayne Rooney. In the absence of the non-competition fit Robin van Persie, he was the star on the side of The Reds . The captain scored with an attractive half ado, but goals from Ki Sung-Yueng (28 ‘) and Gylfi Sigurdsson (73) proved too much for the record champion of the Premier League.
Van Gaal still have over two weeks to fill with purchases are depleted selection: the transfer period expires on 31 August. United saw this summer, the three experienced defender Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic and Patrice Evra to leave. In addition, the team is struggling with several injured players, including the expensive teenager Luke Shaw who was acquired from Ronald Koemans Southampton.
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