When Marcus Rashford happily followed Louis van Gaal to his post-match press conference because he had a new scoring weapon, Van Gaal was equally happy.

With this bloodbath against the city's sworn enemy, coupled with the previous elimination of the club's century-old rival Liverpool from the Europa League, his position at Manchester United has been completely stabilized. Even if the season ends up empty, he doesn't think he'll be out of class.

Throughout the more than 100-year history of Manchester United, although there are many coaches with better results than his coaching career, there are really few who have achieved such good results against sworn enemies.

In his two years in charge of Manchester United, he played Liverpool six times and won six in a row; Four times against Manchester City, with two wins, one draw and one loss, and both wins were very beautiful, and the loss was only a 0:1 defeat.

On April 12 last year, in the 32nd round of the English Premier League, Manchester United played Manchester City at home and won 4:2, which not only broke Manchester City's hope of overtaking Manchester United in the standings, but also laid a solid foundation for Manchester United to retain its Champions League seat.

And today's bloodbath at Manchester City not only allowed the team to overtake Manchester City in the standings and enter the top four, but also avenged the team's crushing defeat at Old Trafford five years ago.

If the management of Manchester United had to fire themselves in such a situation, they would be under tremendous pressure from public opinion, and even if they left Manchester United, they would receive a large amount of monetary compensation.

Reflecting on the pressure he was under after his shock defeat to Midtjylland a month ago, Van Gaal still has some lingering feelings.

And the root cause of this huge change is the little guy behind him, and it is precisely because of his excellent performance that it has brought the team nine consecutive wins on all fronts since then, and the team has made steady progress on three fronts: the league, the Europa League and the FA Cup.

However, if it weren't for his own discernment and the greatest trust he had in him, it would have been difficult for this little guy to get ahead.

Thinking that when various media reported on the excellent performance of this little guy recently, they would mention his insight, Van Gaal's heart was even happier.

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When he arrived at the press conference at the Etihad Stadium, Van Gaal found that Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini and captain Yaya Toure had arrived, and reporters were already on standby.

Van Gaal laughed and said, "I'm sorry everyone, those little guys below are too noisy, it took a little more time to greet them, and everyone waited for a long time." ”

Van Gaal's words made Pellegrini, Yaya Toure and the media reporters close to Manchester City very unhappy. Of course, they know what Van Gaal's words mean by showing off.

Pellegrini pursed his lips secretly, and secretly said that he just won a game, what is there to be proud of?

However, the thought of his team losing five made Pellegrini's displeasure even stronger.

With Louis van Gaal and Marcus Rashford in place, the press officer announced the official start of today's post-match press conference.

First up was the visiting head coach Louis van Gaal who summed up today's game.

In this regard, Van Gaal already had a draft, and immediately talked about it freely. The meaning of the words is very simple: that is, he is very satisfied with the result of today's game, and he is very happy.

Because of the team's final victory, Van Gaal, who was in a good mood, didn't even care about the unfair penalty that the team suffered from the referee in the game.

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Then it was the turn of the home team's head coach Manuel Pellegrini to speak.

However, as soon as Pei Gong's words came out, it caused an uproar.

Pellegrini said it was a very unfair result for the team that played better today to lose because of luck and the inadequacy of individual players in the team.

To prove himself, Pellegrini also cited a series of statistics.

Manchester City had more possession on the pitch today, reaching 54 per cent, and squeezing Manchester United, who had 60 per cent possession this season, to just 46 per cent, illustrates the strength of Manchester City.

City had more shots on goal today, with 26 shots on goal, more than double the number of shots taken by Manchester United, who had just 12 shots on target.

Manchester City played a more civilized game today, with only 16 fouls in the game, compared to United's whopping 25; Manchester City received only three yellow cards, Manchester United received five.

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Subsequently, Pellegrini said that Manchester City, who performed so well, should have had a better result, but in the end, it was too sad to lose by a large margin because of bad luck, the abnormal performance of individual players, and the poor form of attacking players.

Finally, Pellegrini also criticised Marcus Rashford's last-minute celebrations, saying they were too low for any professional player to do.

Listening to Pellegrini talking there, Van Gaal and Marcus Rashford, as well as most of the reporters present, were dumbfounded. After losing 5-0, Pellegrini came to the conclusion that Manchester City is the stronger and better team. Is this madness or what?

For Pellegrini's words, even Manchester City's on-field captain Yaya Toure couldn't believe it, and his eyes widened.

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By the time Pellegrini finished speaking, the reporters couldn't wait to start asking questions.

The first thing Van Gaal was asked was how he felt about what Manuel Pellegrini had said.

Van Gaal laughed: "I was very surprised by Mr. Pellegrini's words. If the game had been decided by more possession, more shots, fewer fouls and fewer cards, United would not have been fourth in the table, but at the top of the table. As for Leicester City at the top of the table, they have just over 40% possession, and there are more fouls and cards, so I am afraid that they will have to be in the relegation zone, right? ”

Then, Van Gaal added: "The performance of this game, as long as a normal person knows, which side plays better. As for the foul problem, if it weren't for the lack of referee enforcement standards, it is difficult for anyone to guess what today's result would have looked like in the end. Because according to normal penalties, Manchester City would have lost two players and conceded five goals at the end of the first half. And when the second half starts, Manchester City, which has two fewer and is five goals behind, will be like, I'm afraid no one can guess what it will be. ”

Van Gaal's words naturally questioned his level of enforcement by the referee Oliver, but because he won today, he spoke much softer, otherwise, he would definitely spray directly at the referee.