Wayne will find a way, says LVG
Louis van Gaal has challenged Wayne Rooney to improve on a poor goalscoring record at his old club Everton.
|||London - Louis van Gaal has challenged Wayne Rooney to improve on a poor goalscoring record at his old club Everton as Manchester United travel to Goodison Park.
Rooney has been declared fit to play on Saturday despite missing England’s Euro 2016 qualifiers against Estonia and Lithuania with an ankle injury. But he has failed to score on his last six visits to Everton, a run stretching back eight-and-a-half years to United’s 4-2 win on Merseyside in 2007.
In fact, Rooney’s last away goal anywhere in the Premier League came 11 months ago.
Asked if he was concerned by that sequence, Van Gaal said: ‘Yes, but maybe against Everton that can change. I have heard his average there is not so good. So it’s getting time that he changed that pattern. I’m a manager who analyses opponents and gives him advice as to how we can disorganise Everton’s defence, then maybe he can score.’
United’s trip comes on the back of a 3-0 loss at Arsenal. Van Gaal admitted that he has endured an ‘awful’ two weeks since then, and said: ‘We cannot accept that. Not just me. Not only my members of staff, but the players cannot accept it from each other.
‘We want to be champions so you have to behave like champions.’
One man who has made a champion start to his United career is Anthony Martial, who was named Barclays Player of the Month for September.
Daily Mail