Schweinsteiger out of Newcastle trip

Paul Scholes is not the only one who has been bored by United this season…even Louis van Gaal admits he’s felt the same! Van Gaal is back on the ropes after that and anything but a win with a strong performance will see more frustrations boil over from fans.

“They [the fans] are thinking that we could not score, and maybe because of the traffic they decide to leave a few minutes earlier”. Maybe the traffic. There are many reasons why someone might leave early. Do you know that my primary concern is defense?

United ended 2015 with a run of eight games without a win – the club’s worst stretch in more than 25 years.

And United’s shortcomings in attack were highlighted again on Saturday night when they needed a last-gasp penalty to beat Nigel Adkins’ third tier Sheffield United at Old Trafford in the third round of the FA Cup. “Nobody is talking about that, everybody is talking about the fantastic defence of Sheffield United – I don’t think you can do any differently as a player of the League One level”.

Their fans cheering ironically when Memphis Depay produced the team’s first shot on target after 65 minutes and United have now gone 10 home games without a goal before the break. The possession-based football being displayed under the Dutchman has left fans disgruntled.

If United do miss out on Guardiola to their rivals Manchester City, there will be a real sense of disappointment amongst the fans.

It looked as if there could be a shock at Emirates Stadium, where the Premier League leader fell behind to a Jermaine Lens strike after 17 minutes for Sunderland, which was second-to-last in the league.

Reds on Twitter have reacted with incredulity to the managers comments and it’s time he stopped acting like an innocent bystander and started making the fans happy – for once.

“Yes, I can understand that because it was a fact that we were not shooting too much or were not able to shoot at the goal so much”, said Van Gaal.

Midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger injured his knee and is a doubt for tomorrow’s Premier League match at Newcastle United. We don’t see anything else. “Every week I’m saying we have to improve in the third or fourth phase”. “I’m sorry about that, but it is like that”, he added.