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Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal was forced to defend his tactics after a rather unconvincing display saw the Red Devils limp to a 0-2 win over struggling Queens Park Rangers.

The Dutchman started the match with a rather strange 3-3-2-2 formation that the Hoops were able to pick apart during the first half of the match in which United missed some good chances but were unable to take control of the game.

Travelling supports started shouting “attack, attack, attack” and even “four-four-two, four-four-two” in order to get the Dutchman to change his tactics, which he eventually did switching to a 4-4-2 that allowed Marouane Fellaini and James Wilson to score in the final 30-minutes sending United home with all three points.

“I know in advance that when we play with four midfielders in a diamond that we create more chances, but then the balance of the team is also weak,” said the manager.

“And you’ve seen it because we had created chances but so had QPR.

“We have to decide every week how we have to play. And that’s the question.

“But also with the other system we played against Tottenham Hotspur, maybe you remember the first half we created maybe six or seven more chances than today, and we didn’t score.

“So it’s always the question, are you effective enough?

“Against Southampton away we scored two out of three chances and we won the game.

“But it was not because we were the better team at that time.

“Last week we were the better team, but in football it is not always the better team who wins.

“In the first half we played like QPR wanted.

“We did the same thing as QPR, playing through the air, long balls, and QPR were better.

“In the second half we changed the shape and that helped also.”

 

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