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Manchester United vs West Bromwich(WBA) - van Gaal urges United fans to boo him



Posted Saturday, November 07, 2015 by PA

Louis van Gaal wants Manchester United supporters to aim their anger towards him rather than his players.

United fans booed loudly when Van Gaal substituted Anthony Martial for Marouane Fellaini in the 66th minute of Tuesday's 1-0 win over CSKA Moscow.

The supporters were clearly unhappy about the often sterile style of play as they also sang: "We're Man Utd, we want to attack."

Van Gaal admits supporters are entitled to their opinion, but believes negativity is seeping through to the players.

"The supporters have to support the players otherwise they make it very difficult for the players to play at Old Trafford," the United manager said.

Van Gaal has suspected the players have found it harder playing at Old Trafford ever since he took over last year.

United had an impeccable record on Van Gaal's first tour of the United States, but had to come from behind to beat Valencia in a friendly at Old Trafford and then lost at home to Swansea on the opening day of the Premier League season.

"It's very difficult to play for Manchester United with a lot of pressure and you can taste that in Old Trafford because of all the yelling, then it's not good for my players," Van Gaal added.

"I can only advise the fans to criticise the manager and not the players.

"It's better to whistle the manager, I can cope with it because I have had a lot of experience in my life as a manager."

Ashley Young looks set to continue at right-back as Matteo Darmian is suspended and Antonio Valencia is still out with a foot injury.

Long-term absentees Luke Shaw and Paddy McNair remain sidelined.

Tony Pulis has questioned the decision to award referee Anthony Taylor one of the Barclays Premier League's top games.

The West Brom boss was fined B#8,000 by the Football Association on Thursday after admitting an improper conduct charge following last week's 3-2 home defeat to Leicester.

He was upset with Taylor's decision not to award Albion two penalties and confronted the official after the game.

Taylor is set to take control of Stoke's televised clash with Chelsea on Saturday and Pulis, who has failed to properly speak to referees' chief Mike Riley, remains upset.

"The LMA are doing the most they possibly can to try to bring us together and yet we get no feedback on Anthony's performance on Saturday," he said, ahead of Saturday's trip to United.

"I got the fine and the club got punished because we dropped points because of those decisions and then you see Anthony Taylor has got one of the top games this weekend. It is most probably the best game and the game most people will watch on Saturday.

"I just hope and pray that it's not just lip service. I hope they do take some notice of what we do.

"What is disappointing is the fact we sent in a response, I've tried to get hold of Mike who is in Japan and Mike has tried to send me a message back and we've not been able to get hold of each other."

Pulis takes his team to Old Trafford aiming for a third straight win at United and will assess "one or two" knocks but is likely to have an unchanged squad.



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