Louis Van Gaal is determined to be his own man at Manchester United, but this is one habit he will not mind borrowing from Sir Alex Ferguson.
Late goals were a hallmark of Ferguson’s teams and how fitting that Van Gaal’s first appearance as United manager at Old Trafford should end with a stoppage-time winner from under-fire midfielder Marouane Fellaini.
It meant that the Dutchman maintained his winning start as United boss, adding Valencia to a list of beaten opponents that includes Real Madrid, Roma, Inter Milan and Liverpool shirt.
Typically, he was still far from happy.
It was, Van Gaal acknowledged, United’s ‘worst game’ under him. They were pedestrian at times and Wayne Rooney missed a penalty.
On this evidence, he still has a significant amount of work on his hands. On Saturday lunchtime another team in white will line up against United … and this side will have to raise their game to beat Swansea City.
‘We made a lot of wrong choices, wrong passes and we didn’t press too much,’ said Van Gaal afterwards. ‘We have to choose better the right time to pass the ball. We haven’t done that and that is a pity.
‘It’s a big pressure because the fans expect a lot, but you cannot change everything in three or four weeks and the players cannot change either.
‘We have to wait and see and develop and we need time, but we have won every game up to now and that’s fantastic when you see our opponents.’
That Fellaini should be the man to score the winner was somewhat poetic.
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