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Hope young makes that rwb spot his own

Valencia for 40 games otherwise ffs

Rafael is so washed needs to fuck off to the championship

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Jones distribution is awful

Herrera doing his best Casper impression.

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Rooney and Herrera both losing the ball in there own half in the space of 30 seconds

Lvg won't be happy

Young and mata were stand out players that half, fletcher and welbz done well too

Wanna see zaha uptop now been calling for it for 18 months

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Went to pens

 

All 5 scored

 

Young? Cant remember the first one already

 

Hernandez

Cleverly

Kagawa

Fletcher

 

Zaha was sick when he came on

 

Nani looked decent too after coming on as a sub and before being subbed

 

Keane another solid 45mins too along with Blackett

 

Good organisation from Evans too

 

Young had a good game too, done his job

 

Still need a lot of work getting the wingbacks involved more going forward though

 

Overall solid performance, alot of positives to take regardless of it going to pens

 

Still not sure where alot of players will fit into the team (Lingard, Powell, Wilson, Janajuz, Nani, Fellaini)

 

Fletcher injuries aside would have been a shoe in for captain, he is a natural and someone who knows the true culture of the club and what the fans want, its a shame he cant because he wont start week in week out

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Good to see a lot of positive feedback from the media and fans for Zaha's performance

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Van Gaal hails "best match so far"

Louis van Gaal felt Manchester United’s performance in beating Inter Milan on Tuesday was the best of his three games in charge so far.

The Reds overcame the Italian outfit 5-3 on penalties after a goalless 90 minutes in Washington DC, to stay top of the International Champions Cup group with five points.

Van Gaal made eight changes at the break but both his sides were dominant in defence, with goalkeepers Anders Lindegaard and David De Gea virtual spectators.

"I am very pleased," the manager said. "I think we played by far the best match of our sequence of three.

"They only had one shot on our goal and that was given by the referee [a free-kick], but I think we also created six or seven chances, so then it is seven against one.

"I was very pleased with our ball possession; it was much better than the other matches. And I think also the positions were better covered.

"So I was tonight very pleased with the performance of my players, both in the first half and the second half."

United were successful with all five spot-kicks in front of 61,000 fans in the US capital and van Gaal admitted the squad had been working on them in training.

"We practised penalties yesterday and also the sequence," he said. "That is why De Gea was our goalkeeper in the second half, because he is the best of the four at penalties.

"Fletcher hit the post in training so it's also a little bit of luck, but we deserved the victory."

United’s defence – containing a variety of players – have now kept two clean sheets in three games so far on Tour 2014, presented by Aon.

Van Gaal continued: "The first match was zero goals, the second match was a fantastic goal by Pjanic, an error from the goalkeeper and a penalty given by the referee, and today again zero goals.

"So we are doing well but we are looking for defenders, because a lot of defenders have gone. We have to replace them but I like also like Michael Keane and Tyler Blackett."

Shinji Kagawa played in the playmaker role in the second half after replacing Juan Mata, having also been used as a holding midfielder in the previous two games.

"I know him from Borussia Dortmund and he played in the no.10 position," van Gaal added. "I wanted to try him in the no.6 or no.8 position in our system in the first two matches, and then I also gave him a chance at no.10 because he wanted to play in that position. He did it much better than in the two matches before."

Of second-half substitutes Luke Shaw and Wilfried Zaha, the boss said: "Luke is working very hard and he was lucky because normally I would have played our friend Reece James, but he was a little but injured.

"And so I asked him in spite of a very heavy training session this morning and I think he did very well.

"I was pleased with Wilfried's performance but we have to wait and see. He has a lot of competition with the other strikers."

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Louis van Gaal has £500,000 video surveillance system installed to monitor Manchester United players

 

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Jonny Evans thought he knew all about scrutiny after eight years in the white heat of Manchester United but the last two weeks have taken it to another level. Louis van Gaal’s relentless quest to analyse which of his players will belong to the club’s future have seen him install video surveillance equipment at the training facilities where the club have worked across the United States. The scrutiny of it has been painstaking.
 
“I think it’s a lot more detailed at the training ground,” says Evans, of the battery of camera equipment which also awaits the players back home at Carrington. “They have spent thousands on it and a few of the lads have seen HD cameras around the pitch.” He is right. Van Gaal has ordered an investment of £500,000 on this technology above the practice pitches in Manchester. The suspicion among United’s players is that he was having footage sent to him even when he was at the World Cup with the Netherlands, allowing him to begin his assessments while the players worked with Ryan Giggs and Albert Stuivenberg, the new assistant coach. This scrutiny of training sessions is something new to British football.
 
“He is saying ‘you should be five yards to the right,’” Evans relates. “We are able to see things that are happening live on the pitch. We went through a video last night and I was ten yards out! There are things you are doing on the pitch, and the whole team will be feeling the same, and you are thinking ‘am I in the right position?’ Then he will show you in the video and you will know.”  It was certainly never like this with Sir Alex Ferguson. “The case before was that as long as we got the results everything was fine,” Evans says. David Moyes ventured into video analysis territory but not to this extent.
 
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The feeling among the players is that Van Gaal, who had similar surveillance gear erected at Sabener Strasse, Bayern Munich's training ground, will be looking to use the HD footage to view close-ups of their faces, assessing when they are fatigued. But their concentration levels are just as likely to be scrutinised. Van Gaal perceives concentration during a 60-minute training session as a prerequisite and any player who loses focus in that hour as a potential weak link, whose mind could wander during a game. “When I see that someone loses his concentration I explode,” he once said. "They know that. And they never get angry over that. I think that they kind-of like it that I have such a primal response. They realise I need it.” Endurance training has never been important to him.
 
Evans appears to have the qualities that Van Gaal demands. It is understood that he is the centre-half the Dutchman is most impressed with, because he views him as a player more comfortable than Phil Jones or Chris Smalling in bringing the ball out of defence and passing. Van Gaal, who admitted on Tuesday night that he was looking for more defenders, is desperate to sign a left-footed centre-back as he does not want three right-footed operators across the back three. That is why Arsenal captain Thomas Vermalen fits the bill. He is understood to covet a back-line, right to left, of Evans, Borussia Dortmund’s Mats Hummels and Vermaelen.
 
Evans agrees that it would be regrettable if the players began overthinking what they are doing. “You don’t want to lose your instinct and I think that is the case with a lot of footballers. You see especially attacking players with flair, you don’t want to take away their natural ability to score goals. You look at Wayne Rooney [last Saturday against AS Roma]. He bent one in to the top corner and scored a fantastic goal. The question is ‘do you lose that sort of thing by thinking too much? But I don’t think you do. I don’t think the manager thinks you can think enough.”
 
Van Gaal actually said on Monday that he wants the players to “know why they do something” rather than play “intuitively.” But it is something emotional, rather than cerebral, which tells this group that they have reputations to rebuild. “It was a hard time to be a Manchester United player [last year] because..  you don’t want to be that player or part of that team that didn’t qualify for the Champions League,” Evans reflects. “But it happened. People are now saying Manchester United can’t win the league. That is a big motivation to us.”
 

 

 
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