Champions League Victory Excites Manchester United Manager

Manchester United came from behind to beat German bundesliga side, Wolfsburg 2-1 in their second champions league game for the season at the Old Trafford on Wednesday night.

The Red Devils, who missed out of last season's European soccer kicked off their 2015/16 campaign on a bad note; losing to PSV Eindoven in their first game.

Daniel Caligiuri opened scoring for the visitors with a fantastic finish to silence the crowd at Old Trafford, but, Juan Mata levelled up for the Louis van Gaal's side from the penalty spot just after then, Chris Smalling gave the current EPL leaders the winner in the second-half and send the fans home happy. Here's what van Gaal had to say to MUTV...

"It was a very good win, it was a must-win and it was very difficult when you start with one goal behind in the first four minutes, when they scored a fantastic goal, I have to admit. Then it is very difficult to beat a German team; they were very organised and structured but in spite of that we came back in the match and we created a lot of chances. In the first half we played very well but we didn’t finish our chances, and that was our problem. Only from the penalty that we got off this referee could we score. It was 1-1 at half-time but we created chances to be 3-1 ahead. Then you have to continue and we did, but only for the first 15 minutes, I think. After the goal it was transforming our team, because we didn’t keep the ball anymore and I didn’t see Wolfsburg pressing so much, so we gave the ball away. We did it by ourselves because the players are tired and the accumulation of the matches is very high in England. The last five matches we have kept the ball fantastically in our possession and now we couldn’t do it anymore. We have to recover, recover and recover because Sunday is Arsenal and they played yesterday, so they have one more day of recovery. 

"Of course, because you shall win the Champions League when you are clinical and when you can finish the game much earlier. We had the chances to do that in the first half, or to keep the ball in the second half. We didn’t do that and I was suffering on the bench, but the fans were also suffering and I have to admit the players were also suffering. But they continued with the team spirit. We didn’t give too many chances away, only for Andre Schurrle, and we also had two chances on the counter-attack. But I am very happy. We must win the game and we are first in the group with the goal average of three together."

"No, I think it was tactical because I wanted to prevent crosses from that side and Antonio let them cross. Also, I saw that at that side they could be more effective on that side. Schweinsteiger, he was tired I thought and that was the reason, because he also gave balls away and Schweinsteiger is normally the best possession player, so that is the reason I changed him. The same for Memphis." 

"Of course, he did it already against PSV Eindhoven when he could have scored also and now he scored. I am so happy because it shall give him such a boost. His development as a player is amazing, so I am very happy with him."