Louis van Gaal had a losing start to his Premier League career as manager of Manchester United (football Shirt) on Saturday as Swansea won, 2-1, to become the first visiting team since 1972 to open the season with a victory at Old Trafford.
Gylfi Sigurdsson capitalized on poor defending to score the winning goal in the 72nd minute. An overhead kick by Wayne Rooney, United’s captain, had canceled out Ki Sung-yueng’s first-half score.
“We never played as a team — that is our error,” van Gaal told BT Sport television. “But I think we have to always keep the head up and use the second step in our process better than we have done today.”
United, a 20-time English champion, finished seventh in the Premier League under David Moyes last season after the retirement of Alex Ferguson, who was British soccer’s most successful manager.
Van Gaal officially began work only a month ago, after leading the Netherlands to a third-place finish at the World Cup.
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Gylfi Sigurdsson capitalized on poor defending to score the winning goal in the 72nd minute. An overhead kick by Wayne Rooney, United’s captain, had canceled out Ki Sung-yueng’s first-half score.
“We never played as a team — that is our error,” van Gaal told BT Sport television. “But I think we have to always keep the head up and use the second step in our process better than we have done today.”
United, a 20-time English champion, finished seventh in the Premier League under David Moyes last season after the retirement of Alex Ferguson, who was British soccer’s most successful manager.
Van Gaal officially began work only a month ago, after leading the Netherlands to a third-place finish at the World Cup.
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