at the start of the new calendar year, the spotlight is on Manchester United and Louis van Gaal. The manager recognizes that his team has trouble making goals, but that according to the United coach did not say there again money is going to be thrown in the transfer market.
Van Gaal United won all six matches in a row not in the Premier League and scored in that range even three times. By elimination in the Champions League and the current sixth place is the pressure therefore increased. Saturday’s opponent, Swansea City, has other problems. The team of interim coach Alan Curtis, who replaced the street periodically Garry Monk is seventeenth. The difference with Newcastle United, who eighteenth under the relegation line, is just two points.
Angstgegner
Swansea seems therefore a welcome guest at Old Trafford, but the relative balance of recent times is remarkable. The last four meetings between all ended in 2-1 for the Welshmen. This season United lost like last season the away match, while in the previous year – in the first round of play – including a 1-2 defeat as the final score went into the books. On January 5, 2014 United Swansea had already thrown out of the tournament for the FA Cup. “It is a well organized team,” Van Gaal sets the angstgegner. “Besides, they want to play attacking football. We often difficult to Swansea. ”
That even in the usually jovial club from Wales coach is put on the street, says something under Van Gaal. “It draws the crazy world of football in which we operate. Managers can be fired while a year earlier became champion of the most promising trainer proclaimed.
If it is to avoid a layoff, United will have to win again in the league. Van Gaal knows that it must be primarily working on productivity. “For making goals is our problem,” he admits. “We can solve with money, but also training. Making goals is a quality obtained in this selection. But due to a lack of confidence is that there is not now. We also lack a bit of luck. But we keep on working hard. ”
Trust
Yet Van Gaal does not exclude that there will be a new striker. “I can still. But for now I give my strikers confidence. I do not believe in competition. I’d rather give confidence to the players there. Maybe that’s wrong, but if I did it during my entire coaching career. I encourage our fans also not simply to believe everything written in the media. “
Van Gaal therefore does not regret his last summer Radamel Falaco, Robin van Persie and the now Bayer Leverkusen to the conveyor-scoring Javier Hernandez has been let go. “If we had kept them all, there were now many very good strikers in the stands. So it is with Hernández. He wanted to play, but that would not always happen. “
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