Yup, another underwhelming performance.
One of the most telling moments for me yesterday was Rooney banging the pitch with his hand in frustration at Valencia when he was breaking out, turned at the half way line to pass to RW and nobody was there at all. Players just don't seem to be on the same page at all and they are only where they are through a combination of the talent they have available, luck and De Gea.
I think there has to come a time when the club has to look at all the injuries and explore the possibilities that there might be some external factors responsible (training, conditioning, warm up etc) and they are not all bad luck. Smalling is the 43rd injury in van Gaal's tenure.
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