Manchester United will reclaim lost glory under LVG

By Evans Dakwa

A mere glance at the headline of this piece will no doubt ignite a lot of debate among soccer pundits and fans alike given the nature of inconsistency shown by the Red Devils in the 2014/15 season. The once mighty Manchester United have shown glimpses of recovery from the doom and gloom of the David Moyes era but not enough to convince skeptics the team is capable of returning into the swansong United that literally swept all in sundry.

The season has not yet returned Old Trafford into a fortress where all teams across Europe dared dreamt of wining with minnows like Swansea registering a league double over the team from Manchester.

That being said, there are enough signs within the team to suggest that Louis van Gaal’s men will rediscover the form that made United feared football force across Europe. The Dutchmen has managed to instill a certain level of confidence and belief in his troops and with the time I have no doubt the team will come right.

The Philosophy as is van Gaal’s way of playing is widely called has taken time for the players fully understand and implement quite well having being used to Sir Alex  Ferguson style for a very long time and the short lived Moyes era one.

Ander Herrera, Wayne Rooney, Marcos Rojo and Angel Dimaria celebrate one of the three goals against Tottenham

                                         

The Dutch man has managed to turn the careers of a couple of players whom many where clamouring for their heads. Many of the Red Devils fans could not understand why Moyes paid 27 million pounds for Marouane Fellaini, the Belgian who paraded a lot of disappointing outings last season. Under van Gaal, the man has been a totally transformed player with a couple of man of the match performances that has silenced his critics. He has turned from the villain to the hero for the man from Manchester and suddenly his absence in the Manchester united midfield has become a cause for concern for its supporters.

The same can be said of the likes of Ashley Young, Antonio Valencia and to some extent the goalkeeper David Degea and Juan Mata. Very few people would have ever thought Young and Valencia will be at Old Trafford this season or even deserved to be there. The English man and the Ecuadorian have been among the top performers for United albeit in totally different roles of being wing backs. Who would have thought Young with his reputation of being a diver could flourish as a wing back, I would like to believe it’s the confidence instilled by the manager that has worked wonders with him.

Great teams are known to have the knack of pulling good results even when they are not playing well and many will agree United have been like that season. What will happen when the team gels and start to play with that intensity as witnessed in that match at Anfield against Liverpool week in week out. Good times indeed lie ahead of the Red Devils and Louis van Gaal is and will be part of that equation.