Is it the managers fault we miss a penalty and a free header in front of goal some of our players are just not up to it.
Of course it's the managers fault! here's why:
1. playing at home having 80% possession and 26 attempts and still losing to WBA.. Our players have forgotten to score under LvG. Of course it's his fault. How come our players played their worst under LvG? The manager has zero energy. In his post match interview he spoke like an outsider observing from a distance, having no emotion to show his anger or disappointment or pinpointing what's going wrong. Why??
2. The decision of who's to take penalty should have been made well in advance in the dressing room. It's not RvP's fault the goalie made a superb save (and his trademark shot was again brilliantly saved.) The fact that we needed that penalty to get a draw is pathetic enough. The problem goes beyond the level of players ability and capability. They were asked to play with LvG philosophy and had 80%possession which had obviously meant feck all when we didn't score. Still week in week out we were doing the same thing without a change of strategy. Not players fault.
3. When you said some of the players are not up to it, it's more to do with their mindset and confidence, not their capability. We are playing for top 4 which should have been a piece of cake but yet we struggled like a mid table team hoping to play better as players seem to not know how to play to win any more.
4. We lack a leader on the pitch and we don't have a leader in Van Gaal judging by how our players are doing. We always saw (and we know he did it behind the scene) how sir Alex has so much energy which was transferred to his players, and we saw none in LvG. I don't buy the suggestion that LvG has done all he needed behind the scene so he did not need to go to the to the touchline. It's nonsense,