Manchester United fans endured another frustrating afternoon at Old Trafford, as the Reds drew 0-0 with West Ham.
It was a fairly entertaining draw, with West Ham hitting the post twice in the first half and United having a number of chances to seal all three points. However, the United fans voiced their displeasure at their side’s performance and boos rang out at the Theatre of Dreams after the final whistle.
This is how United manager Louis van Gaal reacted after today’s result, which leaves the Reds fourth in the Premier League after their fifth goalless draw in the past nine games:
I think that we played a very good match, it’s only we have to score. You must score out of the kind of chances we created. You need to score, otherwise you cannot win, and it is very frustrating, also for the players because they want to score. We have to finish better than we did today.
You can train every day on shooting at the goal and you have to know that we are doing that. We put players in the position to score but you need composure and luck to score. The most important thing is that we are creating and we are dominant. Today, we were dominant and attacking, we were creating chances – only we forgot to score.
[Can you understand the fans’ frustration?] Yes and no, because they can see that we fought until the end. There was a fantastic team spirit and we were dominant. We created many chances and you can only do that when you are attacking; we attacked much more than our opponents, who were defending in their square of 40 metres. That’s always difficult but we created a lot of chances. Yes, you have to score from those chances and we didn’t do that. That is our problem in the latest matches.
Of course it’s frustrating [when rivals drop points] but I look first at my own team – that’s the most important thing. We have to win in Wolfsburg – we need to score also in Wolfsburg to survive in the Champions League.
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