Jesse Lingard asked to do too much in Manchester United’s draw with PSV | Paul Wilson

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Louis van Gaal’s side failed to entertain at Old Trafford against PSV Eindhoven and face an awkward final group game at Wolfsburg to reach the last 16

Word is getting around that Louis van Gaal encourages Manchester United to play boring football. That was the charge the manager faced when Dutch journalists arrived in the north‑west for this game and Van Gaal did not specifically deny it, he merely invited critics to take a look for themselves and make up their own mind. If they did, they would hardly have been impressed.

As European nights at Old Trafford go, not to mention the 10th anniversary of George Best’s death, it has to be said that excitement was at a premium. Jesse Lingard did his best to inject pace and invention, but breathing creative life into a stubbornly moribund United might be a task beyond a 22-year‑old with only a handful of first-team appearances.

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