Louis van Gaal as he prepared for the Dutchman’s first competitive visit to Anfield.
United have resided in the top four for most of the season andlast Sunday’s comprehensive defeat of Tottenham Hotspur suggested form has clicked at an ideal time for Van Gaal and his collection of big-name attacking talent.
it is so difficult that United’s training this week has been with the hostile atmosphere in mind. Van Gaal said: “I am the referee in the games that we have had in the training pitch and I have whistled the way that they have to control their aggression, for example, to prepare the atmosphere. Control of emotion is also a talent.”.
It is the task for Uniteds to confirm that, they are the best than liverpool. But it is the most difficult ground for Manchester United.
Unlike United, indeed unlike any other team in the Premier League in 2015, Liverpool have a relentless momentum as they pursue Champions League qualification, at the potential expense of their fiercest rivals for a second successive season.
United’s results were more encouraging than their form pre-Spurs, winning six, drawing two and losing two of their 10 Premier League matches in 2015, and Van Gaal concurred that Sunday represents an important, but not defining, point for both clubs. The implications for not qualifying for the Champions League stretch way beyond this campaign.
Van Gaal said the 3-4-2-1 formation that Rodgers first deployed in the league at Old Trafford is a tactic he has employed in the past. It may have been where Rodgers got the idea, having been a keen student of the Dutchman’s work. “You can trace it back to his time at Ajax,” said Rodgers. “He had a clear philosophy about how he wanted to work. Everyone wants to win but your philosophy dictates how you want to do it.
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