Van Gaal also said that they gave the ball away unnecessarily after half-time, insisting that their positions in midfield were not as good as in the first half.
Southampton missed a penalty as they held a makeshift Manchester United side to a 0-0 draw in a tepid Premier League clash on Wednesday.
Yusuf Yakubu and Marcos Pereira each scored a brace as Churchill Brothers beat Tollygunge Agragami 4-2.
Felix Aboagye's goal gave the Mumbai side their first victory from two matches in the National Football League.
Churchill Brothers' president and two players were handed suspensions for unruly conduct at a football match.
Sporting Club de Goa shocked East Bengal 1-0 to storm into the semi-finals of the Federation Cup football tournament.
A toothless and haggard Real Madrid slumped to a humiliating 10th Liga defeat of the season on Sunday as they lost 1-0 at struggling neighbours Rayo Vallecano.
Sporting Clube beat Churchill brothers 4-0 to climb to the third spot in the NFL table.
Following is the schedule of Indian contingent on the seventh day of the Asian Games on Saturday.
No tears were shed in the court-room when the superstar was convicted in a hit-and-run case. But there were plenty of Bollywood moments, reports Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com.
Sporting Clube de Goa beat Vasco Sports Club 3-0 to move into fourth position in the ninth National Football League.
Churchill Brothers beat Sporting Clube de Goa 3-1 for only their second victory in the National Football League.
The victory helped JCT Mills move up to fifth place in the National Football League.
Felix Ibrebru's goal enabled the former champions take a point from the sixth round National Football League match.
Tottenham Hotspur routed Bournemouth 5-0 as they leapfrogged City into second place in the league, six points behind leaders Liverpool who thrashed Newcastle United 4-0.
The NFL's leading scorer notched his 14 goal in a 2-1 victory over Vasco.
Bahader had previously told media he was 75, which he attributed to "rounding up".
James Maddison scored a brilliant winner to help Leicester City come from behind and beat Tottenham Hotspur 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday in a match dominated by VAR drama.
The Poles beat Malaysia while Canada got the better of Japan in classification matches in the men's Olympic hockey qualifier.\n\n
The Nigerian striker scored once in each half in a 2-1 victory over Churchill Brothers in the National Football League.
Archana Venkataraman, Sheethal Goutham, Liza Pereira and Isha Lakhani sailed into the 2nd round in ITF tournament.
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The Tollygunge goalkeeper saved a late penalty in a 1-1 draw in the National Football League.
A 3-1 victory took Vasco to seventh place in the National Football League.
Brazilian Jose Barreto scored the only goal of the match as Bagan beat Bhratri Sangha.
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Real Madrid edged past Sporting Lisbon 2-1, while Juventus came from behind to secure a 3-1 win at Sevilla and Borussia Dortmund crushed Legia Warsaw 8-4 to set a record for the most goals scored in a Champions League match.
They will now face winner of the East Bengal-Ever Ready tie in the final on September 28.
Although Spurs always looked more comfortable on the ball it was Sean Dyche's side, who have just a point from their opening five games, who had come the closest.
The draw enabled East Bengal stay unbeaten with 17 points from seven matches in the National Football League.
Abhishek Yadav's goal a minute from time earned Mahindra a 2-2 draw in the National Football League.
The former beat SBT wile JCT accounted for Churchill Brothers in the Federation Cup football tournament.
Four goals, including a hat-trick by Agnelo Gomes, was the highlight of the NFL match.
Two goals by Marcos Pereira gave the Goa side a 3-2 victory in the National Football League.
Iain Hume struck from a spot-kick after some Debjit Majumder heroics under the bar as a 10-man Atletico de Kolkata secured a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Delhi Dynamos.
United are 16th in the standings with a game in hand heading into the international break.
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