Van Gaal hits back at media over Mourinho rumours

Louis van Gaal has expressed his frustration at Manchester United’s 1-1 draw at Chelsea on Sunday (7 February) after a late goal from Diego Costa left his side without the three points.

Although he is unbeaten in seven Premier League matches, Hiddink has been unable to spark a significant rise up the table and Chelsea enter the match with United in 13th place, 16 points off Arsenal in the final Champions League spot.

In the face of all the speculations surrounding Louis van Gaal’s possible departure from Manchester United, one of their midfield stars has spoken in glowing terms about the man who is widely being rumored to be his replacement – Jose Mourinho. When you have played as well as we did today and you are not making the gap smaller…

“Also we could have scored after the first goal, but you don’t reward yourself when you play such a game against such a fantastic team like Chelsea, you have to reward yourself”.

Van Gaal has shown signs of cracking under the pressure of United’s struggles and he bristled at suggestions he was about to be replaced by Jose Mourinho following the draw against Chelsea.

“I know we have to play a very nasty duel against Chelsea and of course I will say to my players “fantastic performance, until the last quarter”. “We have the feeling because we are winning two times in a row and with sparkling football, goals and clean sheets”, he explained. I hope also to get the support of the media this week.

“In the last couple of games he’s been doing very well”. So it is more frustrating that they scored in added time and how they scored because Daley Blind was slipping, more or less.

Hazard, 25, swept the board in last season’s player of the year awards after Chelsea won a Premier League and League Cup double. What they’ve done and given for me as a young 14 and 17-year-old boy…

“That is one aspect, but there are many more aspects that you can not see – the structure inside the club, the cohesion between the employees of Manchester United”. While the Leicester City story has caught the imagination of nearly everyone in English football, a late title challenge by Manchester United was six minutes away from being a real possibility. Write what you want. “I don’t think it’s fair”.