Wayne Rooney: Manchester United’s draw against Newcastle United felt like a defeat

“Newcastle only wanted to attack”, he said.

Scholes has criticised United’s style of play a number of times this season and offered a scathing assessment of their efforts during the 1-0 win over Sheffield United in Saturday’s FA Cup third-round tie, saying the entire team looked “bored”. I have said in all my press conferences that you have to score one more than your opponent, we didn’t do that today.

Newcastle striker Aleksandar Mitrovic has defended Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney, labelling those that criticise him as “people who don’t watch football”.

“We are very disappointed”, said Van Gaal. “But I have to live with it, I have to cope with it. My players have to cope with it. It is very hard for them, but we have given two points away. Hopefully, I can do it more in the future”. We haven’t won in a few games but the crowd were behind the team all game and I want to thank them for that. For me it is always nice and I’m very proud to have the chance to play against him, ‘ said Mitrovic.

Chris Smalling insists he and his teammates must learn from their mistakes as United were twice pegged back in Tuesday night’s draw with Newcastle United. “But you have to force the luck and finish the chances when you get them when they are so big”.

Earlier, United failed to claim victory in this week’s clash in Premier League as they were held by Newcastle to a 3-3 draw, despite taking the lead twice over the course of the 90 minutes.

Van Gaal added: “In my opinion, there is no discussion about the penalties”. In my opinion it’s no discussion on our penalty, Mbemba is putting his hand to the ball, he did it with goal so it’s a penalty. He did it with goal and consciously, so that is a penalty.

‘You can see on the pitch how easily he moves.

For his penalty, Mitrovic was clearly wrestled to the ground by Smalling but only a fraction of these decisions are given, despite this being a frequent occurrence in every Premier League match these days. “It is a duel I think and you can not decide who is worse”.