{"id":184096,"date":"2016-01-24T06:56:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=184096"},"modified":"2016-01-24T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:56:56","slug":"louis-van-gaal-man-utd-fans-are-right-to-boo-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=184096","title":{"rendered":"Louis van Gaal: Man Utd fans are right to boo me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"headline\">\n<p class=\"story-header\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said he and his team deserved to be booed by fans after the 1-0 loss to Southampton at Old Trafford.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United failed to score a first-half goal for the 11th home game in a row, before Charlie Austin got the winner in the 87th minute.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United are fifth in the Premier League, five points behind fourth-placed Tottenham and 10 off leaders Leicester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They are right to boo. I cannot deny that, I saw the match,&#8221; said Van Gaal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;For better or for worse we have to stick together,&#8221; added the Dutchman after his side&#8217;s six league defeat of the season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">United have taken 37 points from their first 23 games, their lowest total in the Premier League era and three points fewer than under David Moyes during the 2013\/14 season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van Gaal added: &#8220;We are working very hard, but we have had a lot of injuries. That you cannot change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"cross-head\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, United were without Ashley Young, who Van Gaal says faces &#8220;a long time&#8221; out with a serious groin injury, and lost fellow defender Matteo Darmian mid-way through the second-half following a clash with Shane Long.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Van Gaal revealed that the Italian was &#8220;spitting blood&#8221; after leaving the pitch and had gone to hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the 26-year-old is now sidelined it will leave United without a fit senior full-back, with Luke Shaw still out after suffering a double fracture of his right leg last September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal said he and his team deserved to be booed by fans after the 1-0 loss to Southampton at Old Trafford. United failed to score a first-half goal for the 11th home game in a row, before Charlie Austin got the winner in the 87th minute. United are fifth in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184096","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}