Wayne Rooney: United are not ruthless enough

“We are not ruthless enough – we have to score more goals as a team, they were able to almost hit us on the break a few times”.

“We are playing in a fantastic stadium, but it gives us confidence that we won on our home ground and we will try to do it again on Wednesday”. “It’s a learning curve but we can not go on saying that”.

“It was so close but we still didn’t score”.

United would have qualified with a win, but their hopes are now in the balance with the top three teams in Group B separated by only two points with one match to play. It was something picked up by Van Gaal and he added that the game got less attractive as it went on.

Louis van Gaal branded Manchester United’s performance as “average” after the turgid stalemate with PSV Eindhoven left his side dicing with death in the Champions League.

“No, not automatically”, Van Gaal said when asked if Rooney would regain his place in the team.

“We have to win. You never know but you as a journalist are thinking yes that is like that but you can not know”.

“Of course I am anxious, but I also know that goals are coming and going”, admitted Van Gaal.

Still there was little sign of a United goal, and PSV remained a threat. I thought we could have scored at least three goals against PSV and they were not hard chances.

“I am very excited about this result”, he told Ziggo Sport. [In the] second half we didn’t show enough composure on the ball, they changed their system and made it hard for us and we failed to adapt to that.

“In the first half we opened them up”.

“We are still second and are still in the qualifying position, Van Gaal said as reported by manutd.com”. That is more hard. “I think it would have been easier to secure qualification tonight when we had the chance”. “We have won against them at home”.

Manchester United team: De Gea, Darmian, Smalling, Rojo, Blind, Schweinsteiger, Schneiderlin, Lingard, Rooney, Memphis, Martial. That’s their style and the first 20 minutes they power forward and created some unsafe situations. “There were occasions we could have put our foot on the ball and controlled it a bit more but we were a bit panicky at times which allowed them to get back into the game”. They couldn’t find a solution to beat our defense. “At home we have had good results [with two wins]”, said Pröpper.

How they could have done with a sprinkling of magic from their most famous number seven on Wednesday night.