Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal urged his team “to stick together” as he set a target of three successive victories to keep his side in the Premier League title race.<\/p>\n
A 2-1 defeat at Bournemouth on Saturday means United have won just two of their last seven league games.<\/p>\n
They are fourth in the standings, three points behind leaders Manchester City.<\/p>\n
“Losing two in a row is disappointing, now we have to stay in a position to keep fighting,” said Van Gaal.<\/p>\n
“We now have to win three matches in a row to still be up there after Christmas.”<\/p>\n
‘Title not out of reach’<\/strong> Leicester, second in table and with a game in hand over United, host Jose Mourinho’s side on Monday and a win for the Foxes would leave Van Gaal’s side five points off the top.<\/p>\n Asked if United can still challenge for the title, the Dutchman added: “We have the selection to do that, but we are in a very difficult position because of injuries.<\/p>\n “We have to play a lot of youngsters, who have played well, but we have to make a revival because we have lost two matches in a row.”<\/p>\n ‘The players are committed’<\/strong><\/p>\n Bournemouth’s goals both game from set-pieces, which Van Gaal described as “unacceptable”.<\/p>\n However, he praised the attitude of his players, who he believes are firmly behind him.<\/p>\n “You have to perform in a certain way,” he added. “I was pleased with what I saw in the first half.<\/p>\n “For me the most important thing is the commitment of my players to perform as we have agreed and I can only tell they want to do that.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester United boss Louis van Gaal urged his team “to stick together” as he set a target of three successive victories to keep his side in the Premier League title race. A 2-1 defeat at Bournemouth on Saturday means United have won just two of their last seven league games. They are fourth in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":147536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-174055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nUnited, without a win in their last five games in all competitions, host Norwich next Saturday before travelling to Stoke on Boxing Day and then entertaining Chelsea on 28 December.<\/p>\n