Louis van Gaal
Mar 5, 2015 16:45:08 GMT
Post by Nemanja79 on Mar 5, 2015 16:45:08 GMT
A few points from Louie:
Manchester United’s Louis van Gaal backs backpass as means of attack
• Fans booed Jonny Evans for passing to David de Gea against Sunderland
• ‘What we can improve is our unnecessary ball losses’ says manager
• Van Gaal confident despite tough fixtures
Jamie Jackson
@jamiejackson___
Tuesday 3 March 2015 22.29 GMT
Louis van Gaal understands why Manchester United fans booed Jonny Evans for passing the ball back to David de Gea during Saturday’s win over Sunderland though the manager says his defender deserved the benefit of the doubt.
United defeated Gus Poyet’s side 2-0 at Old Trafford yet the display was again sluggish, particularly in the first half when supporters began imploring the team to “attack, attack, attack” after 23 minutes.
Before and after that moment Evans was forced to play the ball back to De Gea in the United goal because he felt there was no alternative.
This caused dissent among fans, of which Van Gaal said: “That, at that moment is the solution for the player. Sometimes, in spite of there being another solution, the player has not seen that solution. You have to give credit of your doubt to your player and you have to support him. When you make a mistake in defence it is more or less always a goal against us. You have to see that also, the fans have to see that.
“But I agree with the fans that we don’t have to use so much the goalkeeper because I have seen also moments where we can play a higher tempo without interfering with the goalkeeper. But the goalkeeper is also the 11th player for us.
“He can accelerate our game also and sometimes the solution is, via De Gea, to play forward. Of course it is more the English style of playing a match [to attack], but I think the fans have also enjoyed Manchester playing a position game, so it is always a mix of both.”
United visit Newcastle United on Wednesday evening in fourth place with 50 points, two more than Liverpool and one behind Arsenal. With 11 games remaining in which to secure a Champions League berth Van Gaal identified one element he would like his side to change. “What I think we can improve still is our unnecessary ball losses.
“When we can avoid too much ball losses unnecessarily then we make a big step,” the manager said. But he denied his players were anxious in matches.
“Every player is at a different height of pressure and every player has to manage that pressure. You cannot generally say that it is a nervous team because maybe six or seven players are always playing arrogant and they need to be arrogant to play good and maybe another player has to be tense to play good.
“So you cannot say in general that the team is nervous. You can say about individual players that they are nervous, but then we have to talk about individual players and I don’t talk about individual players.”
Van Gaal does not want his side to display more arrogance. “No, because I respect always the personality of the player,” the Dutchman said. “I shall never change the personality of the player, I don’t want that because we have to accept our identities. We have 25 identities in our selection and I respect all of them.
“But I respect them also because of their talent as a football player. Nevertheless they have to fit in the team and the team philosophy and game plan. Then they have to do their job in that game plan in the team philosophy and that is independent of the talents or the identity of the player – everybody has to do that.”
Van Gaal is unsure if Arsène Wenger is right that 72 points may be the total required to finish in the top four. “I don’t think of how many points,” he said of the Arsenal manager’s prediction. “But he is more experienced in the Premier League so I want to believe him. It is going to the last week, I know that.”
www.theguardian.com/football/2015/mar/03/manchester-united-louis-van-gaal-backpass-attack
Manchester United’s Louis van Gaal backs backpass as means of attack
• Fans booed Jonny Evans for passing to David de Gea against Sunderland
• ‘What we can improve is our unnecessary ball losses’ says manager
• Van Gaal confident despite tough fixtures
Jamie Jackson
@jamiejackson___
Tuesday 3 March 2015 22.29 GMT
Louis van Gaal understands why Manchester United fans booed Jonny Evans for passing the ball back to David de Gea during Saturday’s win over Sunderland though the manager says his defender deserved the benefit of the doubt.
United defeated Gus Poyet’s side 2-0 at Old Trafford yet the display was again sluggish, particularly in the first half when supporters began imploring the team to “attack, attack, attack” after 23 minutes.
Before and after that moment Evans was forced to play the ball back to De Gea in the United goal because he felt there was no alternative.
This caused dissent among fans, of which Van Gaal said: “That, at that moment is the solution for the player. Sometimes, in spite of there being another solution, the player has not seen that solution. You have to give credit of your doubt to your player and you have to support him. When you make a mistake in defence it is more or less always a goal against us. You have to see that also, the fans have to see that.
“But I agree with the fans that we don’t have to use so much the goalkeeper because I have seen also moments where we can play a higher tempo without interfering with the goalkeeper. But the goalkeeper is also the 11th player for us.
“He can accelerate our game also and sometimes the solution is, via De Gea, to play forward. Of course it is more the English style of playing a match [to attack], but I think the fans have also enjoyed Manchester playing a position game, so it is always a mix of both.”
United visit Newcastle United on Wednesday evening in fourth place with 50 points, two more than Liverpool and one behind Arsenal. With 11 games remaining in which to secure a Champions League berth Van Gaal identified one element he would like his side to change. “What I think we can improve still is our unnecessary ball losses.
“When we can avoid too much ball losses unnecessarily then we make a big step,” the manager said. But he denied his players were anxious in matches.
“Every player is at a different height of pressure and every player has to manage that pressure. You cannot generally say that it is a nervous team because maybe six or seven players are always playing arrogant and they need to be arrogant to play good and maybe another player has to be tense to play good.
“So you cannot say in general that the team is nervous. You can say about individual players that they are nervous, but then we have to talk about individual players and I don’t talk about individual players.”
Van Gaal does not want his side to display more arrogance. “No, because I respect always the personality of the player,” the Dutchman said. “I shall never change the personality of the player, I don’t want that because we have to accept our identities. We have 25 identities in our selection and I respect all of them.
“But I respect them also because of their talent as a football player. Nevertheless they have to fit in the team and the team philosophy and game plan. Then they have to do their job in that game plan in the team philosophy and that is independent of the talents or the identity of the player – everybody has to do that.”
Van Gaal is unsure if Arsène Wenger is right that 72 points may be the total required to finish in the top four. “I don’t think of how many points,” he said of the Arsenal manager’s prediction. “But he is more experienced in the Premier League so I want to believe him. It is going to the last week, I know that.”
www.theguardian.com/football/2015/mar/03/manchester-united-louis-van-gaal-backpass-attack
