United have had 56 percent ball possession, so van Gaal will probably be pleased. He'll prepare some nice statistics and hand them to the journalists so they can copy them again, no doubt.
by the way, I'm currently reading the autobiography of Sir Alex and while reading the chapter about the 2002-03 season today, I found this sentence:
Ball retention is a religion at Manchester United, but possession without penetration is a waste of time.
Sums it up perfectly.
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