Memphis Depay smashes Europa League record after bamboozling Midtjylland

In the 5-1 midweek victory over Midtjylland, he fielded Carrick alongside Daley Blind at the heart of the defence, with Ander Herrera and Morgan Schneiderlin in central midfield.

Van Gaal, aware that the Danish minnows might not have represented the highest level of European competition, cautioned that his wards may not find it easy to negotiate the tough schedule.

Michael Carrick says he is extremely pleased with Marcus Rashford’s start to life in the Manchester United first team.

“Five-one Manchester City lost against Chelsea. What was it then?”

Will Van Gaal turn things around at Old Trafford? So they put a second team out, but what am I doing now? Unbelievable. It’s the same.

“Yeah, Sunderland we didn’t lose because of the media, that is true”.

In the first game of the season Arsenal won 3:0, thanks to their furious opening 20 minutes of the game. It’s not so bad as some media are writing or telling to the fans. “I hope it, with all my heart”. “If we don’t have that I don’t see how we can win there”.

James Milner’s early first-half penalty was enough to seal their place in the next round and Klopp, speaking prior to the Reds’ Capital One Cup final on Sunday, told reporters at Melwood that the draw is “great” because they “deserve these games”.

“Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until you throw them in and you don’t want to be throwing them in all at once, but I suppose you see who can deal with it and who can’t and majority have”. Memphis Depay, for example, has been regularly asked about at recent news conferences.

United entertain Arsenal on Sunday and Van Gaal believes they are the best team in the country, even though they are behind Leicester City and Tottenham Hotspur in the table. “Some players never get the spotlight”.

Arsène Wenger, meanwhile, revealed Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would miss up to seven weeks of Arsenal’s title challenge as a result of the “quite serious” knee injury that forced him to limp out of Tuesday’s Champions League defeat by Barcelona. It will be United’s third game in a week, coming after fixtures against Shrewsbury Town and Midtjylland, so they will focus on recovery, with Van Gaal’s only coaching being verbal.

Van Gaal then addressed the Mourinho rumours directly, stating that, “he has said things a number of times with a lot of words. I’m happy for Morgan Schneiderlin also”.

Arsenal’s defence should be reasonably confident of a clean sheet here, however, against a United side lacking key attackers.

“He found out he was playing 10-15 minutes before the game, maybe that helped him a bit, he didn’t have too much time to think about it”.