Manchester United manager, Louis van Gaal has expressed excitement following his side’s 2-1 victory over Swansea at Old Trafford on Saturday.
“We’ve started the new year very well. I think we played very risky, very attacking, with three defenders, but we wanted to win and scored two fantastic goals today. That’s the difference. [Attacking tactics] was because of the quality of the opponent and the shape of the opponent. We always look to a gameplan that suits us more and also that the opponent doesn’t expect. That’s the reason – it’s not that we want to play risky football. Against Chelsea we played with a lot of space behind us and also today. But we have won and the most important thing is we have scored two fantastic goals.”
“Martial had one goal and one assist but you could say Rooney had the same, as the run he made to the first post was very important for Martial – it gave him space to get the ball and, of course, the cross from Ashley Young was good. Wayne’s goal, with his left foot behind his other foot, was fantastic.”
“Of course you could see there was a little drop in the team, but they had enough courage to continue and that you have seen. We created chances again and scored the winning goal.”
“It’s unbelievable when you give four minutes’ stoppage time – it’s a lot, especially when they were wasting time, not us. After our goal, of course they were in a hurry, but then it benefits them – that I don’t understand. We were lucky it was wide of our goal because it was a very good header and he was free.”
“Jones was injured and also Young was injured. I had to change them, it was not voluntary.”
